Can you say very loudly?

Can you say very loudly?

It’s grammatically correct to use verb + adverb when the adverb modifies the verb. For example, you can say “He chewed his food very loudly,” because “loudly” is how he chewed. As SwissPete noted above, “loudly” is not how the person in your sentence listened to music. The music was loud, not the listening.

Which is correct hearing music or listening music?

Hearing music is correct. Listening music is incorrect because in English language and literature, it is always listen to a person or thing, not listen a person or thing. Therefore: “They were listening to the music.”

Is listen to me correct?

“The correct one is She does not listen to me”. Listen is always followed by to. Because it is not a transitive verb, so it cannot take a direct object meaning without the respective prepositional phrase.

Is more loudly correct?

Speak more loudly is correct and is still used by people – including me. Louder is an adjective, so would be used in ‘your speech could be louder’, but is now almost universal as an adverb.

Which is correct loud or loudly?

You should say loudly here. In general loud is the adjective and loudly the adverb. As you suggest, there are occasions when people use the adjective to act as an adverb, often in colloquial speech. If you wish to be formal and correct, you should use loudly when you want an adverb.

Is listening and hearing the same thing?

Merriam-Webster defines hearing as the “process, function, or power of perceiving sound; specifically: the special sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli.” Listening, on the other hand, means “to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention; and to give consideration.”

Can listen example sentence?

He promised: “As president I will listen carefully to everyone”. I will listen to him with my eyes. “I will listen to what he says himself. I promise I will listen to you 100\%.