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In the sentence, "good" is a noun. You can say "deliver ..." or "achieve positive results", but why use the longer latinate words? It just makes you look like
by maw 16y ago
In the sentence, "good" is a noun. You can say "deliver ..." or "achieve positive results", but why use the longer latinate words? It just makes you look like you're trying to look smarter than you are.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoNo, these are not just different ways of skinning the same cat, the meaning is quite different. The word "good" is a noun, indicating what will be done. The word "well" is an adverb, and describes how something will be done. In a contrived example, a sentence like "the raping and pillaging invaders did well" is grammatically and semantically correct (they achieved their goal by getting lots of gold, etc.). A similar sentence "the raping and pillaging invaders did good" is grammatically correct, but the semantics are probably not what you want (they didn't do good, they did evil).
- ramchip 16y agoI think you're technically right about the difference between the two, but I'm quite sure the author did mean "do good"... more food would obviously be a good thing for Africa.