careful.

Right: He spoke slowly and carefully.

Crude: He sure did good in his classes.

Right: He surely did well in his classes.

=b. In such sentences as _He stood firm_ and _The cry rang clear_ the
modifier should be an adjective if it refers to the subject, an adverb
if it refers to the verb.=

Right: The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home. [Here the
thought is that the sun which shines is bright.]

Right: He worked diligently. [Here the modifier refers to the
manner of working rather than to the person who works. It
should therefore be an adverb.]

Right: It stood immovable. The shot rang loud. He becomes
angry. The weeds grow thick. They remain obstinate. He seems
intelligent.

=c. After a verb pertaining to the senses, _look_, _sound_, _taste_,
_smell_, _feel_, an adjective is used to denote a quality pertaining to
the subject.= (An adverb is used only when the reference is clearly to
the verb.)

She looks _beautiful_. [Not _beautifully_.]

The dinner bell sounds _good_. [Not _well_.]

My food tastes _bad_. [Not _badly_.]

That flower smells _bad_. [Not _badly_.]

I feel good [_in good spirits_.]

I feel well [_in good health_. An adjectival use of _well_.]

I feel bad [_in bad health or spirits_. "I feel badly" would
mean "My sense of touch is impaired."]

Exercise:

1. They fought ---- (heroic, heroically). Dave stumbled
----(awkward, awkwardly).

2. Margaret ---- (sure, surely) worked ---- (faithful,
faithfully) in economics.

3. At this reply the teacher grew ---- (wrathful, wrathfully).
I hear you ---- (plain, plainly).

4. I feel ---- (giddy, giddily). Your rose looks ---- (sweet,
sweetly). No perfume smells so ---- (dainty, daintily).

5. That salad tastes ---- (good, well). I feel ---- (bad,
badly) today. Your voice sounds ---- (good, well) and
----(familiar, familiarly).

=A Word in a Double Capacity=

=57. Do not use a verb, conjunction, preposition, or noun in a double
capacity when one of the uses is ungrammatical.=

Wrong [verb]: An opera house was built in one part of town, and
two churches in another.

Right: An opera house was built in one part of town, and two
churches were built in another.

Wrong [verb]: He always has and will do it.

Right: He always has done it, a