In the sentence:
How deep or deeply should I study something?
Which of the two is more appropriate?
Learn English – “How deep” or “How deeply”
adjectivesadverbsdifferencesword-choice
adjectivesadverbsdifferencesword-choice
In the sentence:
How deep or deeply should I study something?
Which of the two is more appropriate?
Best Answer
In that context, it's deeply.
Deep is an adjective, so can only be used to describe the quality of a noun:
Deeply is an adverb, so can only be used to modify a verb:
Deep is often used instead of deeply, to the extent that it is largely accepted without comment. However, I've never heard it the other way around. "What a deeply question" is just plain wrong.