Is there any difference between environment-friendly and environmentally friendly? And are the both idioms correct?
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This tuna is environmentally friendly (no hyphen)P.S. Can't remember if there should be a hyphen or not in environmentally-friendly tuna - I think I'd use one, but I may be wrong.
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The difference being;
This tuna is environmentally friendly (no hyphen) = adverb
This is environmentally-friendly tuna (hyphen obligatory) = adjective
No. In both forms environmentally is an adverb and friendly is an adjective. Forming a compound doesn't changd what the adverb does - it remains a modifier of friendly.Ain't that what I said...in admittedly less precise terms?
That's not the point. You're comparing two different structures here. In your examples, the adverb is at the end. In the case of "environmentally-friendly" there are two adverbs, but put together as one word which works as an adjective, and that's why the hyphen is necessary. From my point of view as a linguist, I would use it with the hyphen, no doubt.No hyphen is needed to link an adverb to the word it is describing. One wouldn't write "He is running-quickly" (modifying a verb) or "She is terribly-unhappy" (modifying an adjective) or "It is changing very-quickly" (modifying an adverb).
No, "friendly" is an adjective, not an adverb. Many adverbs are formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, but here an adjective is formed by adding "-ly" to a noun. There are other examples, such as "gentlemanly".In the case of "environmentally-friendly" there are two adverbs,
Oh, thank you! I knew this meaning of "friendly", but didn't realize it was an adjective here. Anyways, I said the whole word is an adjective.No, "friendly" is an adjective, not an adverb. Many adverbs are formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, but here an adjective is formed by adding "-ly" to a noun. There are other examples, such as "gentlemanly".
In standard modern English "friendly" is always an adjective. It was used as an adverb in the past, but its adverbial use now seems to be only in American colloquial English.but didn't realize it was an adjective here
Thank you, Andygc! I guess this is something a non-native English speaker does not realize if it is not taught.In standard modern English "friendly" is always an adjective. It was used as an adverb in the past, but it's adverbial use now seems to be only in American colloquial English.