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for questions about colloquial language. Colloquial language, colloquial dialect, or informal language is a variety of language commonly employed in conversation or other communication in informal situations.
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When to use "easy" over "easily" as an adverb?
Using "easy" as an adverb (that is, to modify a verb) is part of idiom; it is colloquial usage. The correct English adverb is "easily".
The word "easy" has many idiomatic usages. Fowler's "Modern En …
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