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@untchable704_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
Was porn hub down last night?
I roll my eyes at half your posts, but you almost made me spit out my coffee through my nose right now lmfao
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@kdclemson_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
If I asked you how you were doing isn’t “I’m doing greatly” more correct than “I’m doing great”.
Great is an adjective and you’re doing, doing being a verb. Because it’s a verb, your answer should end with an adverb, no?
Like if I asked “How are you?” the correct response is “I am great.” Because the adjective is used to describe you, but if I asked “How are you doing?” would it not be more grammatically correct to say “I’m doing greatly”?
I can write better than Shakespeare
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@the_joneser_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
@abbyspapa_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
And idiom here means it is informally accepted as a natural form of language.
That’s a colloquialism; an idiom typically doesn’t make sense in context and is usually only used by a small segment of people.
This is fun… I love grammar questions
Sure, You can call it either.
"How are you doing?" and the response "I'm doing fine." are idiomatic expressions because they do not make sense using a literal definition of "doing".
They only make sense because over hundreds of years we have accepted an informal definition of "doing" as a replacement for "feeling" in this context.
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Which is correct, "I'm doing great" or "I'm doing greatly"?
“I'm doing great” is generally acceptable in American English except in the most formal registers. In British English it's ok further down the register scale, but at least to older listeners it would sound markedly and possibly intrusively American (but perfectly intelligible). That's as much to do with a collective distaste for hyperbole as any quibble over parts of speech; a Brit is likely to respond in more measured tones (“oh, I'm getting by, you know” meaning “I've just bought my third Ferrari”) but “I'm doing fine” (meaning “I have sold two copies of the Big Issue so far all morning”) is perfectly acceptable and structurally identical; “great” and “fine” are adverbs in this instance.“I'm doing greatly” is not well-formed, because an -ly adverb modifies the manner in which the action is performed, but is not the complement of the verb; structurally it can only be added to an existing well-formed structure that could stand alone, and “I'm doing” is incomplete: “do” requires an object or complement of some kind.
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@abbyspapa_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
Sure, You can call it either.
"How are you doing?" and the response "I'm doing fine." are idiomatic expressions because they do not make sense using a literal definition of "doing".
They only make sense because over hundreds of years we have accepted an informal definition of "doing" as a replacement for "feeling" in this context.
True, true… this all takes me back to grad classes where we’d be tasked with generating “rules” to satisfy usage questions posed by the advanced ESL composition students… good times. Makes me want to curl up with my copy of The Chicago Manual of Style and twist my little brain around.
A nice digression. Thanks, OP.
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@kdclemson_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
@painpa_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
You re thinking way too much about this.
If someone comes up and says "how ya doin"
the only possible response is to say "how ya doin" back.
Yer from new york -YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.I’m actually from New Jersey lol
Same difference
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@kdclemson_psn said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
If I asked you how you were doing isn’t “I’m doing greatly” more correct than “I’m doing great”.
Great is an adjective and you’re doing, doing being a verb. Because it’s a verb, your answer should end with an adverb, no?
Like if I asked “How are you?” the correct response is “I am great.” Because the adjective is used to describe you, but if I asked “How are you doing?” would it not be more grammatically correct to say “I’m doing greatly”?
Nobody cares
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Just go with “not so bad, n’ you” Letterkenny style. Is it grammatically correct? Well that’s probably not a Texas size 10-4 but who cares?
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When asked I always respond back with " how yoouuu doin?"
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@beardowngoblue said in Shouldn’t people say “I’m doing greatly”?:
Just go with “not so bad, n’ you” Letterkenny style. Is it grammatically correct? Well that’s probably not a Texas size 10-4 but who cares?
Pitter patter, let’s get at ‘er. Get this man a puppers
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