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Drive safe: Most native speakers would pick up this way. It's a chunk.
Drive safely: Grammatically, it's supposed to be this way. There are some native speakers also go this way.
👏Both of them are correct. It's your choice to puck up anyone based on your situation.
📕Flat adverbs: It has the same form as its corresponding adjectives. It doesn't require add "ly" to function as adverb we see at the end of adverbs. They are also known as simple adverbs ot bare adverbs.
Ex: "fast". That car is really going fast.(the adjctive and adverb exactly look the same."Fastly"doesn't exist.)
🌈Flat adverbs: late, hard, fast, long, near, deep, safe.
👏👏👏If you add"ly" for many of them. It actually changes the meaning and that word doesn't exist in English.
📕Characters of flat adverbs:
They don't usually end with "ly". They are often used in colloquial expressions either grammatically or ungrammaticaly.
Ex: She walks really fast.
Ex: He got home really late.(不能用"lately", lately=recently)
play tennis terrible
take it easy(It's an idiom)
👏There are some situations we have to add"ly" and which are formal and academic writing.
Ex: Those books fall easily.
🤞Other ways
1️⃣Those books might fall.
2️⃣Those books are precarious.