it turned out good / well

As well as we ?? tut tut

If you know what "it turned out good" means, what's the problem? Language is about communicating effectively.

The word good is now used as an adverb as well as an adjective. The sentence "I'm good", Minibags informs me, is shortspeak for "I'm feeling well" and is regarded as equal to "I'm well" or "I'm fine" when someone asks "How are you?"

We can all use our preferences but I think we have to accept that
American speakers of English can modify the language as well as us. There are more of them anyway, so we don't really have a choice.

" I don't reckon it matters too much"

How's that for fantastic grammar? It works though. I think.

I guess it's just the way we talk these days. Grammar has gone down the pan. I don't reckon it matters too much. So long as teachers drum the correct grammar into kids,' probably reluctant, heads. We can't let it all go completely.

Rockgran: In a round-about way, I think you have hit on the reason why "the cake turned out good" sounded ok-ish to me. I definitely interpret it as shorthand for "It turned out to be a good cake". In other words, I see it as a description of the end result, the cake itself, whereas "it turned out well", to my muddled brain, says more about the action leading up to that. I'm not saying that my reasoning is grammatically acceptable (and from all the answers, it seems that it definitely isn't), but simply that I've now managed to work out why both seemed possible to me.

Thanks for all your answers, everyone

Me too!

So do I.

In my humble opinion I think.......good is an adjective and well is an adverb. If you extend the sentence to "It turned out to be a good cake." then it works as you are describing the cake. If you are talking about the verb - turned out - then it should be "well". I agree with Jingle.

No. You can only say 'it turned out well'.

But would you actually say that the weather had 'turned out good'? iT

I can see what you mean, MamaCaz by being able to justify both 'well' (it turned out exactly as it was supposed to) and 'good' (as opposed to bad!). The latter sounds rather American to me, though...

It's funny you should mention the weather, because "It's turned out nice again", relating to the weather, was the first thing that came to mind when trying to justify the use of "good" in relation to a cake

If the weather can turn out to be fine, then a cake can turn out to be good!