My "Sign Off"

[johnbirchjar]

Browsing through this months copy of "Roadholder" there is an article by one "Lance Crossley" who has the temerity to sign himself off with "Ride Safe"(Obviously nothing is sacred ,)J.B.

[kanonkopdrinker]

Then you must tell him John, that as an adverb, it should of course be ‘Ride Safely!’ ....

These things matter you know. Standards must be maintained .....

DC

[Gerald Pleace]

Quite right David. As a fellow member of the ROC grammar committee, I agree standards must be upheld. It's as bad as using a preposition to end a sentence with.
Then there are commas and apostrophes.....

[johnbirchjar]

OK,but "Be Safely" doesn't sound right,whereas "Be Safe" does,so why not "Ride Safe"? J.B.

[kanonkopdrinker]

Because ‘ride’ is is verb .... a ‘doing’ word .... and an adverb describes how the verb is done .... and usually ends in ‘LY’.... eg/ quickly, slowly, safely, noisily, busily, etc you get the picture?

In ‘be safe’ I would consider ‘safe’ to be an adjective?

DC

[johnbirchjar]

Thanks for that Dave ,but I shall continue to do it my way'cos it wouldn't be me otherwise ,ride safe ,J.B.