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2008年4月17日 · 'take it seriously' is the correct phrase in BE because seriously is an adverb, while serious is an adjective (and in this case the word describes the actions of the verb take, so we need an adverb). However, I think in AE, they may consider serious to be an adverb.
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2007年8月21日 · What does it mean by " they don't take themselves too seriously? Creative people aren't afraid to look foolish at times, to generate unusual ideas. They tend not to take themselves too seriously. My suggestion: Creative people don't think they are too valuable to …
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2008年4月17日 · Seriously. Personally. Well. All of these are about how I'm taking it. "Taking it" here means "responding/reacting to it." The adverbs describe how I am taking / responding to / reacting to it. Note that we would never say "I'm taking it good." Always "well"! I am taking it seriously. = I am taking it with seriousness / in a serious manner.
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2011年7月25日 · As a bit of documentation of this statement, with which I agree: "take seriously" gets 6.8 million Google hits, "treat seriously" gets 126,000. While Google hit counts are not exactly definitive research, when one phrase appears over 50 times as often as the other, it means something.
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2017年2月26日 · He takes his duties seriously. He's a conscientious person who wants to do his job properly. He's a serious person. He doesn't indulge in silly behaviour. The police took the matter seriously. They thought it was important and warranted their attention. I'm serious about this. I'm not joking.
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2014年11月3日 · She asked why I hadn't cleaned the table. I mean, seriously? I spend hours cleaning the whole house and then she wants to know why I haven't cleaned the table. (the implication being that the thing left to do is so small, it pales into insignificance compared to what has been accomplished). Me preguntó por qué no había limpiado la mesa.
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2021年6月7日 · I would like to avoid going into details, but I asked for a certain behaviour in a health & sexuality forum, and while some people agreed with me, two persons just answered "like seriously", so I don't know if they don't share my point, don't believe it, …
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2010年8月21日 · "Seriously" is often an adverb of manner, describing how something is done (as owlman says). But here, "seriously" qualifies the whole sentence: it doesn't tell you anything about the way the speaker knows/doesn't know. I call such adverbs "sentence adverbials", but I've also seen them referred to as "comment adverbs".
take study seriously vs. be serious about study
2017年10月24日 · I was wondering whether "take study seriously" means be "serious about study": 1) "I take study seriously." 2) "I am serious about study." Thoughts and context: I want to know whether there is any difference between them and can they be used interchangeably. I told my friend that my attitude toward study is serious.
don’t feel they are <being> taken seriously - WordReference Forums
2022年9月25日 · Question: I prefer "are taken seriously" to "are being taken seriously", but I don't know why. Maybe the latter is ok. Maybe the latter is ok. I assume that in this context, the simple present indicates an existing state, while "are being taken seriously" implies it's just a temporary state happening now.