Ciao,
I found very difficult to understand the differences between “fit me good” and “fit me well”, could anyone help me?
Many thanks,
To explain this to you, let me make the sentence a little more complete: “The T-shirt fit me good/well”.
“The T-shirt fit me good” is wrong.
“the T-shirt fit me well” is right.
In this case, “well” is an adverb. Remember, an adverb describes a verb. “Well” is describing the verb “to fit”.
in this case, “good” is a noun. You cannot use a noun to describe a verb.
If I put the sentence another way:
“The T-shirt fit me beautiful”
“The T-shirt fit me beautifully”
The second sentence is correct because it uses the adverb “beautifully” instead of the noun “beautiful” to describe the verb “to fit”.
Hope this helps!
Hi Ann
The word “good” is an adjective (as is the word “beautiful”).
Your phrase is grammatically correct with an adverb (“fit me well”).
You might hear a native speaker of English say “This shirt fits me good” in very informal spoken English, and I would expect this to simply be a slang (and grammatically incorrect) version of “This shirt fits me well” (i.e. same meaning).
This is different from the way you can correctly use the word “good” with a copular verb (“linking verb”) such as “be”, “look” or “seem”, for example.
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He is good. = Depending on the broader context, the word “good” might describe his character or an ability, for example.
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He is well. = He is not ill/sick.
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Hi Amy,
If I understand you correctly, we should use the phrase “fit me good”, right?
Many thanks,
Ann^^
No, definitely not in formal English, and not if you want to sound like you know “proper” English.
Which part of my post led you to believe I was telling you that you “should” use “fit me good”? What exactly do you mean by “should”? :?
Did you have a specific complete sentence in mind? Did you have a specific context in mind?
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oh, I see, sorry, I haven’t read it carefully, so “fit me good” is a slang version of “fit me well”.
Let’s take an example: “The jacket doesn’t fit me well.” Right?
Thank Amy.
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Ann^^
Yes, and I’d say you’ll frequently hear that sort of negative sentence with the word “very” added to it:
- “The jacket doesn’t fit me very well.”
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Unlike its Spanish counterpart (for example), the verb ‘fit’ can be used without an adverb, though. A sentence like ‘The jacket doesn’t fit (me)’ is not only likely, but quite common as well.