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    Hi!


    Did I do anything wrong?

    Did I do anything wrongly?


    He did something wrong.

    He did something wrongly.


    Which one of the sentences above is correct and which one is wrong?


    How about:

    She did her homework wrong.

    She did her homework wrongly.


    If both are wrong, how about to understand them with the explanations in parentheses?

    She did her homework wrong. (The answers are/were wrong.)

    She did her homework wrongly. (The way she did it was wrong.)


    Author wani (641043) 09 May 23, 09:45
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    Was genau meinst du mit "how about to understand them ..."?

    #1Author penguin (236245) 09 May 23, 09:50
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    Sind beide Sätze richtig wenn man sie so auslegen wird?

    She did her homework wrong. (The answers are/were wrong.)

    She did her homework wrongly. (The way she did it was wrong.)

    #2Author wani (641043) 09 May 23, 09:53
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    Ah. Schreib besser auf Deutsch, dann gibt es keine Missverständnisse.


    Ich würde immer das Adjektiv wählen. Falls ich die adverbiale Bedeutung meine, würde ich umformulieren: She didn't do her homework the right way.


    Mit anderen Worten:

    Sie hat etwas falsch gemacht --> She did something wrong.

    #3Author penguin (236245)  09 May 23, 09:57
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    Danke!


    Kann man trotzdem anhand der Erläuterung in Klammern sagen


    She did her homework wrongly.


    Sprich, dieser Satz ist auf alle Fälle korrekt, oder?

    #4Author wani (641043) 09 May 23, 10:08
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    Der Satz ist zwar grammatikalisch nicht falsch, man würde das aber trotzdem nicht so formulieren, weil man gleich denkt, jemand habe einen Fehler gemacht und hätte eigentlich "wrong" sagen wollen.

    #5Author penguin (236245) 09 May 23, 10:10
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    Bingo! Danke!


    Ich versuche nun den Punkt zurückzubekommen. 😉


    Nochmals vielen herzlichen Dank!

    #6Author wani (641043) 09 May 23, 10:16
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    Beschreib doch mal bitte die konkrete Situation bzw. Aufgabenstellung. Ich befürchte, du hast trotzdem den falschen Begriff gewählt. Wenn du die andere Bedeutung meinst, hättest du "incorrectly" sagen müssen. Mit anderen Worten bedeutet der Satz nicht das, was vermutlich ausgesagt werden sollte.

    #7Author penguin (236245)  09 May 23, 10:20
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    Der Ausgangspunkt war eine Diskusion über


    Did I do anything wrong?

    Did I do anything wrongly?


    He did something wrong.

    He did something wrongly.


    Wir wollten uns vergewissern, ob alle 4 Sätze grammatikalisch richtig sind und

    falls nicht, was das jeweils für ein Problem sei.

    #8Author wani (641043) 09 May 23, 21:05
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    All the sentences are grammatically correct although there's something about using wrong and wrongly with do anything/something that seems to be causing your problem.


    Your example with homework is clearer. Unlike you I don't think there is any difference in meaning between She did her homework wrong and She did her homework wrongly. Both wrong and wrongly are used as adverbs in these cases and modify the meaning of the verb to do. Both examples therefore mean The way she did her homework was wrong.


    Wrong can also be used as an adjective (wrong country, wrong colour etc) and is actually used as such in The way she did her homework was wrong where it modifies the meaning of the noun way. Another way of saying it would be She did her homework the wrong way.


     I think the difficulty arising from your original examples can be explained as follows:


    Did I do anything wrong? You could rewrite this as Did I do a wrong thing? which is clearly using wrong as an adjective because it's modifying the noun thing.

    Did I do anything wrongly? You could rewrite this as Did I do a thing wrongly? which is using wrongly as an adverb because it's modifying the verb do. Did I do a thing wrong? has the same meaning because in this case wrong is being used as an adverb.


    Wrongly is more formal than the adverb wrong. Wrongly can be used before or after the verb e.g. I wrongly believed she was nice or I believed wrongly she was nice. Wrong is always used after the verb: I guessed wrong.


    #9Author FernSchreiber (1341928)  09 May 23, 21:48
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    Thanks so much FernSchreiber (1341928)!


    I did not know wrong can be used as adverb. Hence I was not sure it these sentences are correct in grammar at least.


    Thanks again!

    #10Author wani (641043) 13 May 23, 21:13
     
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