Verb te form + くれて


So I was helping this girl with her English sentences and she sent me this:

正しくしてくれてありがとう

As the context goes I guess it means "thanks for correcting me"

There's a lot of things confusing me on this sentence, first:

  1. Why's she using the adverb 正しく instead of the verb 正す？ does it comes from something like 正しいする?

  2. Now we have してくれて which is te form of する+くれて, what does it mean? Could this sentence be said in a different way?

Thanks in advance!




>   1. Why's she using the adverb 正しく instead of the verb 正す？ does it comes
> from something like 正しいする?
>

I think it's not just a simple use of adverb. I.e. you would not in this case
parse 正しく+する to mean "correctly do" as you would parse 速く+歩く to mean "quickly
walk".

  * Consider [静かにする](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/39775/meaning-of-adjective-%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B). Although the syntax is adverb+verb, 静かに+する, but it may take on the meaning of "be(make) quiet" in addition to "quietly do".

  * So in your case of 正しくして it means "to make correct". 正しく is conjugated from 正しい to be an adverb.

>   2. Now we have してくれて which is te form of する+くれて, what does it mean? Could
> this sentence be said in a different way?
>

  * [くれる(see diagram in the linked answer)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/404/542) is an auxiliary that means "for me". It indicates the beneficiary of the action and its formation rules is that it comes after the て form. So 正しくしてくれる means "make correct for me".

    * also see [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/308/542) for a primer on verbs for giving and receiving. (Maybe you should look for a good textbook, all textbooks should deal with giving and receiving verbs)
  * くれる is further inflected to its て form くれて in order to append ありがとう after it. ～てありがとう is a structure that means "thank you for ～".

Combined, 正しくしてくれてありがとう can be parsed as "thank you for making it correct for
me" = "thanks for correcting me"




>   1. Why's she using the adverb 正しく instead of the verb 正す？ does it comes
> from something like 正しいする?
>

I think it's not just a simple use of adverb. I.e. you would not in this case
parse 正しく+する to mean "correctly do" as you would parse 速く+歩く to mean "quickly
walk".

  * Consider [静かにする](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/39775/meaning-of-adjective-%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B). Although the syntax is adverb+verb, 静かに+する, but it may take on the meaning of "be(make) quiet" in addition to "quietly do".

  * So in your case of 正しくして it means "to make correct". 正しく is conjugated from 正しい to be an adverb.

>   2. Now we have してくれて which is te form of する+くれて, what does it mean? Could
> this sentence be said in a different way?
>

  * [くれる(see diagram in the linked answer)](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/404/542) is an auxiliary that means "for me". It indicates the beneficiary of the action and its formation rules is that it comes after the て form. So 正しくしてくれる means "make correct for me".

    * also see [this answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/308/542) for a primer on verbs for giving and receiving. (Maybe you should look for a good textbook, all textbooks should deal with giving and receiving verbs)
  * くれる is further inflected to its て form くれて in order to append ありがとう after it. ～てありがとう is a structure that means "thank you for ～".

Combined, 正しくしてくれてありがとう can be parsed as "thank you for making it correct for
me" = "thanks for correcting me"

