{"id":73661,"date":"2020-04-02T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73661"},"modified":"2024-03-05T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T06:12:00","slug":"common-mistakes-in-the-use-of-adverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/common-mistakes-in-the-use-of-adverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Mistakes In The Use Of Adverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this lesson we will learn about the common mistakes in the use of adverbs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students often make several mistakes in the use of adverbs. Those mistakes are explained in this lesson<\/a>. Once you have learnt this lesson, try to do this adverbs worksheet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fill in the blanks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. We were ………………………….. happy to see him. (very \/ very much \/ too much \/ too)<\/li>
  2. She is ……………………… thin. (very \/ very much \/ too much \/ too)<\/li>
  3. The hall is …………………………. to accommodate all guests. (spacious enough \/ enough spacious \/ very spacious \/ very spacious enough)<\/li>
  4. The coffee is ……………………….. hot for me to drink. (too \/ very \/ very much)<\/li>
  5. He is ………………………. to be a cop. (very tall \/ tall \/ tall enough \/ too tall)<\/li>
  6. The mangoes are ……………………….. to be eaten. (ripe enough \/ enough ripe \/ very ripe enough)<\/li>
  7. He was ……………………… to walk. (weak enough \/ too weak \/ very weak)<\/li>
  8. The birds flew ………………………. in the sky. (high \/ highly)<\/li>
  9. This is ……………………….. objectionable. (high \/ highly)<\/li>
  10. I …………………… forgot to lock the door. (stupidly \/ stupid)<\/li>
  11. She writes ……………………. (well \/ good)<\/li>
  12. He sings ……………………… than I do. (gooder \/ more good \/ better \/ well)<\/li>
  13. She is ……………………. intelligent. (very \/ too \/ so)<\/li>
  14. It was …………………….. cold that I was shivering. (too \/ very \/ so)<\/li>
  15. He is ……………………………. to understand the consequences of his action. (enough old \/ old enough \/ too old)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Answers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    1. We were very happy<\/strong> to see him. (Very much is unusual in affirmative sentences.)<\/li>
    2. She is very \/ too<\/strong> thin. (Too shows undesirable extremes; very is also possible here)<\/li>
    3. The hall is spacious enough<\/strong> to accommodate all guests. (The adverb enough goes after the adjective modified by it.)<\/li>
    4. The coffee is too hot<\/strong> for me to drink. <\/li>
    5. He is tall enough <\/strong>to be a cop. (Tall enough shows sufficiency.)<\/li>
    6. The mangoes are ripe enough <\/strong>to be eaten. <\/li>
    7. He was too weak <\/strong>to walk. <\/li>
    8. The birds flew high<\/strong> in the sky. <\/li>
    9. This is highly <\/strong>objectionable. (Highly indicates a higher degree.)<\/li>
    10. I stupidly<\/strong> forgot to lock the door. <\/li>
    11. She writes well<\/strong>.<\/li>
    12. He sings better<\/strong> than I do. <\/li>
    13. She is very \/ so <\/strong>intelligent. <\/li>
    14. It was so cold <\/strong>that I was shivering. <\/li>
    15. He is old enough <\/strong>to understand the consequences of his action. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      In this lesson we will learn about the common mistakes in the use of adverbs. Students often make several mistakes in the use of adverbs. Those mistakes are explained in this lesson. Once you...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2443,2441,2442],"class_list":["post-73661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-adverbs-common-errors","tag-adverbs-common-mistakes","tag-common-mistakes-with-adverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77238,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73661\/revisions\/77238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}