Timeline for Should I use "possible" or "possibly" in the following sentence?
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| Mar 16, 2018 at 7:26 | vote | accept | alex | ||
| Feb 26, 2018 at 6:23 | comment | added | TimK | I'm just going to add that 2 centimeters taller is not very much so it's not likely you are trying to describe why it is physically possible. With that in mind the native speaker is correct and it should be possibly. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 2:55 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 2:38 | answer | added | Doarn | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | user3395 | You've left out in your question what you intend your sentence to say. The usual collocation is possibly because, without any context, and it means "perhaps because"; i.e., the speaker is trying not to offer a definitive explanation. | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 1:14 | history | asked | alex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |