Timeline for "Can easily be" vs. "can be easily" — what's the difference?
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| S Jan 28, 2022 at 21:08 | history | suggested | Libavi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 15:31 | comment | added | Ombrophile | I am unable to understand the correct way to write when "easily" is replaced by "only". In that case, which rule should I use? It would make my life easier if both these cases follow the same rule. Kindly guide me. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 12:14 | comment | added | exchange | Those stats above are very different to those that I get: 1) "it can be easily obtained" gives me 846.000 results while 2) "it can easily be obtained" gives me almost 10 million! Thus, I am very much in favor of the 2nd option. Furthermore, it seems more consistent with the rule of putting an adverb directly after an auxiliary verb in mid position or not? | |
| Oct 13, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I suggest you repeat the stats-finding operation; things seem to have changed drastically over the last seven years. | |
| Oct 16, 2010 at 15:12 | vote | accept | Alejandro Cámara | ||
| Oct 14, 2010 at 15:45 | comment | added | Alejandro Cámara | Nothing found with the ending period... | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 15:41 | comment | added | Alejandro Cámara | My bad! I was refering to "can be easily" and "can easily be". Sorry, I modify my question. Anyway, thanks for the answer! I think in the British National Corpus we must substract the results for "it can easily be." (notice the period) just to avoid counting the use at the end of sentence, right? | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 12:31 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 14, 2010 at 12:25 | history | answered | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 2.5 |