I'm kind of confused about this. As I was scrolling through Facebook this evening I came across a picture of my friend's daughter. It's been a while since I've last seen her, and now she's all grown up and beautiful. I wanted to leave a nice comment on her photo telling her (my friend) how beautiful her daughter turned out to be. I'm aware that the phrasal verb Turn out can be used for people just okay, but what if I wrote the sentence this way: Your daughter is turning out beautiful/beautifully would that also work?
Word Usage – Can ‘She’s Turning Out Beautiful’ Be Used?
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Best Answer
Beautiful is an adjective, not an adverb. So using it in that construction would not be entirely normal—although it's the sort of thing that people might say informally.
In the same construction, you would use the adverb more often:
However, that's a little odd because it sounds like a description of a project or a meal rather than of a person.
Better would be to use a construction that makes more idiomatic use of the adjective.
You might also replace the verbal phrase turning out with something else: