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Adverbs of manner
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msmsr
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Adverbs of manner
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Hello, everybody
I need your help right away, please. I have a doubt: is there a difference between the adverbs of manner conditionally / conditionaly and peacefully / peacefuly when writing. I need to Know if the first ones can be considered as British English and the second ones American English.
Please I need an answer and if possible a good site where I can read more about it
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4 Mar 2009
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Tere-arg
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Although I have seen those words somewhere with an only "l", I think the correct form is with double "l".
Conditional + ly (manner adverb ending) = conditionally
Now, other words like travel, quarrel, propel, equal, etc keep an only "l" when adding a suffix in American English but double it in British English.
travel traveling (Am) travelling (Br)
Sorry I cannot help more than this 
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5 Mar 2009
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douglas
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I have never seen the 1 "L" format and I just checked pons.eu (an excellent online dictionary)and they automatically jump to the double "L" spelling. Pons usually gives both British and US translations so I think we are pretty safe to say the single "L" is simply a misspelling ( I always mispell(?) this word).
Douglas |
5 Mar 2009
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