Adverb of “wrong”

For formal speech outside of a legal context (which is where "wrongly" appears the most often, I think), I would usually use "incorrectly," instead. For everyday speech, I'd say "he was wrong." "Wrongly" has a whiff of moral judgement about it, imo

If wrong is used before an adjective, then yes, wrongly is correct (most often in “wrongly accused,” like you said). But in most cases and when it’s after a verb, it’s just wrong.

Both are correct. 'Wrong' is more informal in terms of its adverbial usage, but more often than not sounds more natural than 'wrongly', which might come off as overly formal and pretentious, unless in contexts such as 'wrongly accused' where 'wrong' is plain incorrect.

The way I understand it: You can't say something like "she was wrong accused" for example, it has to be wrongly before the verb. But if wrong/wrongly come after the verb it's a little more ambiguous, because wrong is also an adverb and has been taking over certain uses of wrongly.

"Wrong" is an adjective and adverb. "Wrongly" is only an adverb. Which one you use depends on the sentence structure itself. I don't know if there are any clear rules for which one to use when. "He does things wrong" would be an grammatical statement. "He does things wrongly" may also be accurate, I think, though sounds odd and/or overly formal. "Wrongly" is honestly pretty rarely used I think. I'm having trouble coming up with an example of when I would opt to use it over simply "wrong", other than your example sentence.

> don't get me wrong "wrong" is actually an adjective here. "get" is serving a linking function, like "make me happy" or "got her pregnant".

This seems to be a simplification for teaching purposes. These happen all the time in English learning coursebooks. Some adverbs get simplified in informal language and instead assume their adjectival form in more and more uses. Wrongly/wrong is one example of that. As you can see, this has gone so far that the book literally only informs the learners about the newer form, because the older one, which used to be the only correct one in the past, is barely used anymore. So both are technically in use, but "wrongly" is mostly confined to formal language now and in casual speech you're gonna hear wrong used as an adverb. By the way, informally people are using "good" as an adverb more and more frequently. It's possible that in a couple decades, people will stop using "well" too.

Others have provided most of the key info but I'd add that if you look at a dictionary definition of [*wrongly*](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrongly), it might help clarify why it's used differently. The main uses of it aren't simply an adverbial "incorrect," the way I might assemble a piece of furniture incorrectly. It typically implies that something has been unfair, or unwarranted, or done with mistaken, unfair or unwarranted assumptions, or that whatever was done can cause harm (as in wrongly accusing someone of something, even if the accuser sincerely believed it). "Wrongly assume" is another relatively common use of the word.

I am just going to chime in that "Wrongly" may be correct in certain circumstance but in American English at least you would use Wrongfully in the example given by many below. "Wrongfully accused" is way way way more natural to me than "wrongly accused" Wrongfully imprisoned. etc...

I mean you can use it in a similar way "he does things wrong" Reads better than "he does things wrongly"

Depending on the context, you might also substitute "incorrectly". Compare "The answer was wrong", to "he answered incorrectly".

hard/late are adverbs. but so are hardly/lately. and they have completely different meanings. and then you have flat adverbs. i love English.

false/falsely is a good alternative for wrong too , but beware some contextual uses of the two words don't make them 100% of the time interchangeable.

"He was wrongly accused."

I am a native English speaker and if I have to use wrong as an adverb I would change the word wrong from a negative to a positive and get "right". Then I would use the word not in the sentence. For example, He does things wrong would become He does not do things right. I would also use "incorrectly" instead of "wrong" or "correctly" instead of "right"