Should there be '-ly'

mokozilee · Post by **mokozilee** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:16 am

Hi

Please help me with this:

Is it acceptable to say that there is a 20% off on a regularly priced item?

I see this very often on American websites. OR, is it more 'grammatically correct' to say, "....regular-priced item"?

Thanks

Syncopator · Post by **Syncopator** » Fri May 01, 2015 10:26 pm

The following are correct.

Regular price.
Regularly priced.

fleance · Post by **fleance** » Mon May 04, 2015 2:08 am

The suffixes -ly is mostly use when the word is adjective. Grammatically speaking regular priced is the correct way to say.

Krisi · Post by **Krisi** » Thu May 07, 2015 12:04 pm

priced is an adjective modifying the word item.
regularly is an adverb modifying the adjective priced.
Words with suffix -ly added at the end of the root/main word is an adverb. Adverbs are words that modify an adjective, verb or another adverb.

Your first statement is correct.
"Is it acceptable to say that there is a 20% off on a regularly priced item?"

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