Sunday, July 28, 2019

Can one form an adverb from any adjective?

I'm trying to form the following sentence:




...we can talk more substantiatively in the event that X occurs.





The term "substantiatively" isn't in either the computer dictionary or online at m-w.com. However, it seems to me that if something can be substantiative, then something can be done substantiatively. More generally, if something can be described as , then one can do it . Is that assertion incorrect?

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