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Please show me that it is different ”in a timely manner” and ”timely”

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nmesomtoChukwu profile picture nmesomtoChukwuJanuary 2021
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  • wordsponge profile picture wordspongeJanuary 2021
    To do something ”in a timely manner” means to meet your deadline for completion or to complete something in a reasonable amount of time (an amount of time that people generally agree that task takes).
  • AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgJanuary 2021
    The explanation has significant problems - The posted question is all about differentiating between ”timely” and ”in a timely manner”.

    Firstly, ”Timely” used as an adjective without collocating with a noun is perfectly correct e.g.

    ”His arrival had been timely. The meeting would have proceeded without him if he had come 3 minutes later.”

    - formal expression with ”timely” used as an adjective (you do know what stative verbs are, don’t you - I hope). This is typical B2 level English, except that they might have inverted part of that sentence. But that would have confused you, so I didn’t do it...

    You could replace ”timely” with ”in time” - but that changes the sense to one of being less formal. Also, ”in time” has other meanings and in context can cause confusion if used. In such cases, ”timely” is a better word choice than ”in time”.

    Or perhaps you may have learned by rote that ”every word ending in ’ly’ must be an adverb”?

    So, ”timely” is a very correct word ”by itself” and has a different meaning to ”in a timely manner”. I’ve already explained exactly what ”in a timely manner” means in my previous post and how it differs significantly from ”timely”...
AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgDecember 2020

”timely” - this is an adjective which collocates with a large number of words - including ”manner”.

Don’t let the ”ly” at the end of the word fool you into thinking it’s an adverb.

”timely” describes something that is to happen within a required time period, i.e. ”in time”. ”in a timely manner” - the way/”manner” you do something so that you achieve something before a deadline, so that it is in time.

Generally, ”timely” is used more formally in speech and writing - including the expression ”in a timely manner”.