interesting
(interestingly / interesting) example is the African use of the word ‘late’: In the early 1990s, a Port Elizabeth school principal was doing enrolment interviews for the next year. One of the families did not Blank 12. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.
turn
(end / turn) up, so she phoned their home. She was informed by the child that her mother was ‘late’. ‘Your mother is very late!’ retorted the irritated principal. Later she cringed at her unintended callousness, for, as the conversation went on, it was revealed that the child’s mother had died. The principal had not realised that, in a number of African languages, the adjective late (a euphemism for ‘deceased’) is used not just before a noun (as in ‘my late mother’) but also after the verb ‘be’. This usage is quite Blank 13. Fill in the blank, read surrounding text.
(logic / logical), as most other descriptive adjectives can be used in this way.