Timeline for How does “rest easily” differ from “rest easy”?
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Aug 18, 2013 at 20:14 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
Aug 18, 2013 at 0:32 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 2 | |
Aug 18, 2013 at 0:18 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Aug 17, 2013 at 23:01 | comment | added | rhetorician | For what it's worth: There's a neat saying you do not hear too often anymore, but it could prove useful, and that is "rest assured," as in "You can rest assured, Tuck's face mask fans, that his team doctor OK'd him to wear the mask." In other words, Tuck's fans can rest, assured that he will still wear the mask. No charge. | |
Aug 17, 2013 at 22:14 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I assume you mean 'rest easy'. Here, easy is used as a predicative adjective ( grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/predadjterm.htm ) after the verb rest used as a link verb. Compare stand still, sit tight, fall flat - the adjective speaks of the (initial / final / enduring / hoped-for) state of the referent rather than any action / state described by the verb. Contrast 'The sailors easily stood on the deck' (adverb describes how easy it was for them to stand) with 'The sailors stood easy on the deck' (adjective describes the [posture of the] sailors). | |
Aug 17, 2013 at 22:00 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |