What are the adverbs in these paragraphs?
Is there something a little, I dunno, dated about a comedy where a guy clutches a towel to his privates while girls giggle at him? And when he asks if he slept with anyone last night, why does that remind me of Doris Day in “Where Were You When the Lights Went Out" (1968)? Here is a titillating sex romp in 2011, when the very words titillating and romp have outlasted their shelf lives. The movie is rated R, but it's the most watery R I've seen. It's more of a PG-13 playing dress-up.
Anyway, finding out he hasn't slept with Emma, Adam engages in sitcom badinage that quickly leads to the old rumpy-pumpy, and they find the pipes running marvelously clear. What a discovery! They can and remain just friends! This is a great convenience. They proceed to frolic like two bunnies in clover, using their cell phones and texting skills to arrange emergency trysts in roughly anything except a bed.
All of this is fun while it lasts. Then the wheels of Hollywood morality begin to grind. There was a time when the very premise of this film would have been banned, but times change, and now characters can do pretty much anything as long as they don't get away with it. Although “No Strings Attached" might have been more fun if Adam and Emma had investigated the long-term possibilities of casual sex, it is required that the specter of Romantic Love raise its ominous head. Are they ... becoming too fond? Emma suggests they try sleeping with others so, you know, they won't get too hung up on each other. If you've ever seen a romantic comedy you know how that works. Experience shows that not sleeping with others is the foolproof way of not getting too hung up, etc.
Find examples of wrong use of prepositions in the following sentence and correct them.
A. We had a surprise to them.
B. We ate the food for ourselves.
C. Our cousins were coming in full speed on the back.
D. There we were met of some agents.
E. Then we were given the choice about going back to the hotel or sightseeing with a private guide.
F. We need a test person to our new motorcycle.
G. In most families, both parents are in work during all day.
H. I don’t remember many books of Roald Dahl.
I. We were waiting at her all day long.
J. She thought she could not write music as brilliantly like Mozart.
Mistsgirl - Sra is right. Once you let us know what YOU THINK the adverbs are, we can help you.
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alicaia - You need to use Post a New Question. Don't piggyback on someone else's post. You also need to let us know what YOU THINK the incorrect prepositions are and how to correct them. Then one of us will be able to help.
To identify the adverbs in the paragraphs, we need to look for words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Here are the adverbs in the paragraphs:
- little
- dunno
- quickly
- very
- more
- roughly
- pretty
- long-term
- not
These words describe how an action is performed or modify the meaning of other words in the sentences.