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Bookmark or Share- Like seriously - WordReference ForumsI would like to avoid going into details, but I asked for a certain behaviour in a health & sexuality forum, and while some people agreed with me, two persons just answered "like seriously", so I don't know if they don't share my point, don't believe it, think I'm so eccentric or what.
- Treat seriously/Take seriously - WordReference ForumsAs a bit of documentation of this statement, with which I agree: "take seriously" gets 6.8 million Google hits, "treat seriously" gets 126,000. While Google hit counts are not exactly definitive research, when one phrase appears over 50 times as often as the other, it means something.
- take it serious/take it seriously | Page 2 | WordReference ForumsSeriously. Personally. Well. All of these are about how I'm taking it. "Taking it" here means "responding/reacting to it." The adverbs describe how I am taking / responding to / reacting to it. Note that we would never say "I'm taking it good." Always "well"! I am taking it seriously. = I am taking it with seriousness / in a serious manner.
- Can I use "seriously" as a substitute for "severely" in my sentence?Suppose that recently I have been experiencing a lot of stress which causes a severe hair loss problem. I would like to use another word to substitute for "severely" in my sentence below. (ex) Stress is causing me to lose my hair more seriously. I am learning to increase my choice of words in...
- take it serious/take it seriously - WordReference Forums'take it seriously' is the correct phrase in BE because seriously is an adverb, while serious is an adjective (and in this case the word describes the actions of the verb take, so we need an adverb). However, I think in AE, they may consider serious to be an adverb.
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