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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5700 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 9 of 13 26 June 2011 at 8:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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As Christian said, I'm good is perfectly acceptable English. This is an
unfortunate hypercorrection where incorrect/nonstandard use of good as an adverb e.g. I read good causes the more complicated situation to be overgeneralized into a simplistic "well is good, good is bad" reaction. As to whether doing ought to also be considered a linking verb like to be, might be debatable. But to reject that usage, one would also have to reject I'm doing wonderful; I'm doing spectacular; I'm doing great. The first two can certainly be converted to the adverbial versions, but I don't think any speaker would prefer I'm doing greatly*. Furthermore, at least in my ideolect, the adjectival versions sound less marked and better. Edited by egill on 26 June 2011 at 8:43am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| christian Senior Member United States Joined 5254 days ago 111 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, German | Message 10 of 13 26 June 2011 at 8:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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@egill
I think "to do" is an auxiliary verb. But in the case of "I'm doing well", I think it's acting as a "feeling" verb, which is linking. Thus "I'm doing good" works. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5087 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian | Message 11 of 13 26 June 2011 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think it's that simplistic. There are certainly many situations, especially colloquial ones, where "good" can be used as an adverb. More colloquial and less 'prestigious' English just tends to use unmarked adverbs as opposed to the marked ones found in formal language. I think I use marked adverbs quite a lot, but definitely many of my friends drop the -lys. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| christian Senior Member United States Joined 5254 days ago 111 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, German | Message 12 of 13 26 June 2011 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
But "goodly" isn't word. I drop adverbs all the time, but the only time I get stingy is with "well" and "good"...but only for action verbs. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| matzi Newbie Denmark Joined 4940 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: EnglishA2 | Message 13 of 13 29 June 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Está bien = ok
Estar bueno = "hot" talking about people, and if you want to say that the food is good. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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