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So I was helping this girl with her English sentences and she sent me this:
正しくしてくれてありがとう
As the context goes I guess it means "thanks for correcting me"
There's a lot of things confusing me on this sentence, first:
Why's she using the adverb 正しく instead of the verb 正す？ does it comes from something like 正しいする?
Now we have してくれて which is te form of する+くれて, what does it mean? Could this sentence be said in a different way?
Thanks in advance!
- Why's she using the adverb 正しく instead of the verb 正す？ does it comes from something like 正しいする?
I think it's not just a simple use of adverb. I.e. you would not in this case parse 正しく+する to mean "correctly do" as you would parse 速く+歩く to mean "quickly walk".
Consider 静かにする. Although the syntax is adverb+verb, 静かに+する, but it may take on the meaning of "be(make) quiet" in addition to "quietly do".
So in your case of 正しくして it means "to make correct". 正しく is conjugated from 正しい to be an adverb.
- Now we have してくれて which is te form of する+くれて, what does it mean? Could this sentence be said in a different way?
くれる(see diagram in the linked answer) is an auxiliary that means "for me". It indicates the beneficiary of the action and its formation rules is that it comes after the て form. So 正しくしてくれる means "make correct for me".
くれる is further inflected to its て form くれて in order to append ありがとう after it. ～てありがとう is a structure that means "thank you for ～".
Combined, 正しくしてくれてありがとう can be parsed as "thank you for making it correct for me" = "thanks for correcting me"
