Gently? With more energy?
If I want to invite a child kicking or throwing a ball to do it not with strength and violence, how have I to say?
Please kick/throw the ball gently/softly/kindly?
And if I want, on the contrary, the child to use more force, how have I to say?
Please kick/throw the ball with more energy?
Thank you.
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Answers · 12
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"Steady on!" for softer.
"Give it some welly!" for harder.
British idiom.
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If you don't want the child to kick the ball so hard say: Hey! Please don't kick/throw that ball so hard, slow down!
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to kick the ball it would be best to say gently or softly or delicately.
and to kick it with more force it would be "kick the ball hard"
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In America we always said:
'Please kick the ball softly'
and
'Can you kick it harder' or 'Kick to ball harder please'
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