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by erikpukinskis 5427 days ago
FYI, you write "correctly". The only thing, grammatically, that you can do "correct" is "come correct", but that's an idiom.
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Using adjectives as adverbs is incorrect in British English, but extremely common in American English. For example:

"I'm doing good" instead of "I'm doing well" "He eats real fast" instead of "He eats really quickly"

If enough people speak that way, I don't think you can call it "wrong" so much as a dialect in its own right.

I wouldn't correct a native speaker. I was just offering, in case they cared.

Fast and good are de facto adverbs. Maybe in some American dialects it's common to use other adjectives as adverbs, but not in mine.

Agree that language changes.

Thanks for the correction. I should've caught that..

You just triggered an image of my first english teacher. 'To be plus adjective, adjective plus noun, verb plus adverb' was her favorite. ;)

Is 'correct' even working as an adverb in that case, or is it more like "come ready" or "come hungry"?