Wise or wisely

[Naveen]

correct sentence:

The question is whether it is wise to sell up all your shares at this stage rather than wait to see how the market is next year.

Correct answer: (b) wise

Your sentence is incorrect:

The question is whether it is wisely to sell up all your shares at this stage rather than wait to see how the market is next year.

I think that the word to be filled in the blank should modify the verb 'sell', so it should be an adverb (wisely) instead of an adjective (wise).

Please explain where i am wrong.

Naveen

[Alan]

Hi Naveen,

If you do something wisely, you use the adverb because you are describing the way in which you do it.

If you say it is wise to do something, there is no action and you are simply completing the sentence: It is .. with a complement - here the adjective wise.

Alan
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