2022-02-16 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - easy & easily
2022-02-16
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – E - easy & easily
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียงeasy = “EE-zee”
ออกเสียง easily = “EE-zuh-lee” or “EEZ-lee”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
easy & easily
These words are not interchangeable in standard speech and writing.
Easily is an adverb; easy is an adjective.
Such expressions as “Take it easy,”
“Go easy,” and
“Travel easy by bus”
are informal, although widely used.
Examples of standard use:
“This is an easy task.”
“You can do that easily.”
Because they are trite or highly informal,
avoid such expression as
“Easy does it,”
“goeasy on,”
“easier said than done.”
“slow and easy,”
“easymoney,” and
“on easy street.”
Dictionary.com:
MORE ABOUT EASY
What is a basic definition of easy?
Easy describes something that is not difficult
and requires little effort.
Easy also describes something that is not stressful.
Informally, easy means in a comfortable way.
Easy has many other senses as an adjective and one as a noun.
The most common sense of easy
describes something that is simple
and requires very little effort or work.
This sense is an antonym of words
such as difficult, challenging, or tough.
Easily means in a way without difficulty.
The word ease can mean a lack of stress or difficulty.
Real-life examples:
Many things you might find easy to do
were once hard until you learned to do them.
Counting to five is easy once you learn to count.
Finding the yellow crayon among all the blue crayons is easy once you know your colors.
You no longer have to think about how to do these tasks.
They are easy for you now.
Used in a sentence:
She thought the math test was really easy.
Easy also describes something
that lacks stress or any other sources of discomfort.
This sense usually describes a person’s life
as being relaxing or free from any problems or worries.
Real-life examples:
Pampered pets often lead easy lives of sleeping and eating.
When you’re on vacation, life often seems relaxing and easy.
Used in a sentence:
He had an easy time at work today because nobody came into the store.
Easy is used informally to mean comfortably or without much stress or hardship.
In formal writing, easily is preferred.
Real-life examples:
Teachers will often go easy on students they like,
meaning they won’t punish those students as harshly or will make things easier for them.
If you are taking it easy,
you are lounging around and not trying to work hard.
If something comes easy to someone,
it means they don’t need much effort to master it or complete it.
Used in a sentence:
The manager went easy on the new employee, giving them a gentle warning.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for easy
Adjective
Easy, Facile, Simple, Light, Effortless, Smooth
mean not demanding effort or involving difficulty.
Easy is applicable either to persons or thingsimposing tasks or to activity required by such tasks.
an easy college course
Facil often adds to EASY the connotation of undue haste or shallowness.
facile answers to complex questions
Simple stresses ease in understanding or dealing with because complication is absent.
a simple problem in arithmetic
Light stresses freedom from what is burdensome.
a light teaching load
Effortless stresses the appearance of ease and usually implies the prior attainment of artistry or expertness.
moving with effortless grace
Smooth stresses the absence or removal of all difficulties, hardships, or obstacles.
a smooth ride
Collins English Dictionary:
Usage:
Easy is not used as an adverb by careful speakers and writers
except in certain set phrases:
to take it easy;
easy does it.
Where a fixed expression is not involved,
the usual adverbial form of easily is preferred:
this polish goes on more easily (not easier) than the other
Collins COBUILD English Usage:
easy & easily
1. 'easy'
Something that is easy
can be done or achieved without effort or difficulty,
because it is not complicated and causes no problems.
Both sides had secured easy victories earlier in the day.
The task was not easy.
The comparative and superlative forms of easy are easier and easiest.
This is much easier than it sounds.
This was the easiest stage.
You can say that it is easy to do something.
For example,
instead of saying 'Riding a camel is easy',
you can say 'It is easy to ride a camel'.
You can also say 'A camel is easy to ride'.
It is always very easy to be cynical about politics.
The house is easy to keep clean.
2. 'easily'
Easy is not an adverb,
except in the expressions go easy, take it easy, and easier said than done.
If you want to say that something is done without difficulty,
you say that it is done easily.
Put things in a place where you can find them quickly and easily.
Belgium easily beat Mexico 3-0.
The comparative and superlative forms
of easily are more easily and most easily.
Milk is digested more easily when it is skimmed.
This is the format that is most easily understood by customers.
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