This post comes from another crazydaysandnights.net "Blind Items Revealed." It is a short one so I included the entire post here.
"For someone apparently in love, this B list talk show host/sometime actress sure does talk badly
a lot about her soon to be husband."
The point of grammar is "talk badly a lot." Is this correct grammatically? To me, it does not sound right. It made me stop and think of "talk rather a lot" or think that "badly a lot" is some sort of expression for something.
To me, it just sound's wrong.
By the way, the celebrity is Jenny McCarthy.
It does sound awkward, but I think that's because to "talk badly" literally means something like slurring her words or not enunciating clearly. I would instead have said something like "she sure does badmouth her soon-to-be husband a lot." This is more accurate, though less formal, than the awkward wording.
ReplyDeleteThe author of these blind item posts makes me squirm. You're writing one sentence, dear Internet denizen -- make it flow! I agree with Susan. There are approximately 1000 ways to write a sentence about Celebrity A badmouthing Celebrity B that would flow better/be more understandable than their sentence.
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