tailieunhanh - 501 grammar and writing 3e phần 9

Tham khảo tài liệu '501 grammar and writing 3e phần 9', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ANSWERS SET 26 Page 46 277. d. Adjectives modify nouns and adverbs modify verbs. In choice d the adjectives frightening and unhappy correctly modify the noun ending. In choices a and b the adverb frighteningly incorrectly attempts to modify a noun. In choice c the adverb unhappily incorrectly attempts to modify a noun. Choice e is unnecessarily wordy. 278. b. The sentence makes a comparison between Adela and all other members of the graduating class therefore the superlative form most should be used. Choices a and d are wrong because they use the comparative more. Choice c is wrong because the word importantly is an adverb and cannot modify the noun member. Choice e is wrong because it uses the word like incorrectly. 279. a. The word than is a conjunction used to indicate a comparison and used as a conjunction it is followed by the the pronoun I. The word conservatively is an adverb modifying the verb dresses. Choice a is the only one that correctly makes the comparison and uses the adverb correctly. 280. e. This is the correct choice because the sentence does not contain a double negative. The other choices either use two negative words within a single sentence or use an incorrect comparative form of easy. 281. a. The sentence compares an individual and an entire crowd of individuals therefore it requires a superlative. Only choice a coherently uses the superlative happiest to make the comparison among all the many people in the crowd. 282. d. When a comparison is made the word fewer is used with nouns that can be counted the word less is used with quantities that cannot be counted. 283. d. This sentence makes a comparison between strip mining and all other types of mining therefore it requires a superlative. Choices a and b compare only two things while choice e inappropriately uses an adverb. Choice c uses a double superlative and is redundant. SET 27 Page 47 284. d. There are no errors. 285. a. The adjective sad should be replaced with the adverb sadly which .