Manually is the adverb. Manual is (in this context) the adjective. Tuning can be either a verb or a noun; however, in your example, tuning the weights is a gerund phrase using the verb. Here you want to modify the verb within the phrase, so use the adverb: The procedure requires manually tuning the weights. If instead you wanted to modify the noun tuning, use the adjective. The procedure ...
I'll note that "hyphenation" is not taught at school, and children would not normally learn hyphenate manually, and would not be expected to do so. They would learn to read hyphenated texts, but this is not a skill that really needs practice.
Manually can refer to something done by a person rather than through an automated process. AngryJoe could be referring to having to search the internet for specific sentences of a copyrighted work to find out if it has been used elsewhere without permission.
I came across the following example: Tick the box if you would like more details. In the sentence, "tick the box" means mark the specific checkbox. If we have the following checkboxes ticking the...
My friend is writing some documentation and asked me an English question I don't know the answer to. In this case which would it be? CCleaner has been run. or CCleaner has been ran.
I have finished would usually be uttered immediately after finishing, but (emphatic) I have already finished wouldn't normally occur until some time after finishing - often, specifically as a contradictory response to something implying that I might not have yet finished. In rare circumstances, an over-eager exam-taker might leap up and say I have already finished, half-an-hour into an exam ...
I have an old car with manually adjustable mirrors. As I was driving home with a friend, I wanted him to adjust the mirror for me so that I could see more of the street. I ended up not asking beca...
I can’t understand and distinguish the necessity of using “will have to” instead of “have to”. I think both are giving the same meaning and both are giving an indefinite hint of future. For example...
I assume Paypal doesn't manually check each transaction, and I don't care if they do or not, but I'm curious about what the phrase literally means, regardless of Paypal's potential misuse. I guess "subject" here is being used in the same way a peasant is a 'subject' of a feudal lord, i.e. the transaction is under the lordship/authority of ...
