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They are ALL incorrect.
The lunch looked beautiful.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 16:36 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| Can we use adjective after a verb? |
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| #4 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 16:44 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| i thought there is no such a structure of sentence : SUBJECT+VERB+ADJECTIVE, i thought there is only: SUBJECT+(TO BE)+ADJECTIVE |
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| #5 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 16:45 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| I agree with u |
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| #6 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 17:00 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| Kitosdad wrote: |
They are ALL incorrect.
The lunch looked beautiful. |
How do you know?
The lunch might have looked awful. :P
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| #7 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 17:13 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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Agreed Andrea. That wasn't the statement made. The lunch couldn't look :-
Beautifully.- adverb --- Beautiful - adjective.
Awfully.
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| #8 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 17:22 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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On the other hand, it might have looked beautifully arranged. :lol:
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| #9 (permalink) Sun May 10, 2009 18:59 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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LOL.
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| #10 (permalink) Mon May 11, 2009 5:13 am how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| Penuel wrote: |
Hello, please help me choose the correct adverb for:
THE LUNCH LOOKED.............
a) badly b) beautifully c) awfully
I think it should be "awfully" but i can't explain why is that.
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As others have stated, none of these are correct. All 3 are adverbs, and adverbs can only modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Thus, these 3 would have to modify ‘looked’, which doesn’t make any sense.
You need an adjective,
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| Can we use adjective after a verb? |
Yes, but not to refer to the verb. An adjective used after a verb has to refer back to the subject. The verb also has to be a linking verb.
As a quick test of whether a verb is a linking verb or not, replace the verb with a form of the ‘to be’ verb. If the meaning remains the same, it’s probably a linking verb.
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| i thought there is no such a structure of sentence : SUBJECT+VERB+ADJECTIVE, i thought there is only: SUBJECT+(TO BE)+ADJECTIVE |
As I just said, you can have an adjective after linking verbs, as long as the adjective refers back to the subject. This structure is referred to as a predicate adjective.
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| #11 (permalink) Mon May 11, 2009 16:01 pm how does "lunch" suppose to look? |
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| Thanks a lot to everybody, especially to skrej! I've learnt that some verbs can be linking ones so we can use adjectives after them like after "to be" and they are predicate adjectives then. |
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