Spell It Wrong Or Wrongly

Style guides and grammars for learners try to give more complete guidance variously stating that if the situation is formal wrongly may be the better choice in either position.

Spell it wrong or wrongly. T he state imprisoned him wrongly. Difference in word class between wrong and wrongly meanings when both being adverb you can apparently notice that when being adverbs wrong and wrongly share the same meaning in a way that is not correct. Also spelt wrongly more formal.

Misspelt words are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. It was spelt wrong. And wrongly can go either before or after its verb e g h e was wrongly imprisoned by the state.

The prefix mis means badly or wrongly so together they mean spell badly. My name was spelt wrong. I m pleased that i verbed it wrong is not a grammatical mistake.

Or she spelled the words wrongly the spelling of the words was wrong as she did it the adverb takes on an adjective flavor which makes the adjective form acceptable to the ear. Wrongly is used before a past participle or a that clause. If the verb is a common short one such as do get have or go it often forms a set phrase in which wrong is the idiomatic choice don t get me wrong she did him wrong how did he go wrong.

The adverbial wrong always follows the verb it modifies e g he answered wrong. He spelt the word wrong. Commonly misspelled english words uk.

Wrong wrongly wrongfully wrong wrongly wrongfully. It becomes okay to write she danced wrong the understanding being she was wrong or the dance was wrong. I m afraid you guessed wrong.