adjectives & adverbs

  1. Speak free/freely.
  2. Drive slow/slowly.
  3. Have you heard any news late/lately.
  4. I don’t like men and women standing close/closely.
    Are all these grammatically OK?

These are correct (the others aren’t):
Speak freely
Drive slow (acceptable in a number of situations now)
Drive slowly
Have you heard any news lately
I don’t like men and women standing close.

Go slow!—Adverb.

“Slow” is here adveb: It is a sentence.

But in this sentence ‘Slow’ itself is a noun. Aliffathima, can you identify all?

More? pls. see “Better English” by Norman Lewis.