Can you please tell me if I have identified the correct adverbs and adjectives in the following paragraph. If not could you please point me in the right direction?
It won't be the same for moviegoers in New York or LA, where they're used to *seeing* their respective metropoli roughed up by *interstellar* tourists with *terrible* attitudes.
. Notably, there's a scene -- full of *queasy* visual *allusions* to the World Trade Center towers and those who didn't make it -- where the *nominal* humans played by LaBeouf (whose character's personal Autobot bodyguard, Bumblebee, should be *agitating* for better material by now) and company *slide* down the *glass* exterior of a *toppling* office building. Down, down, down they go, like Leonardo and Kate at the end of "Titanic." The scene keeps going and going, and if Bay had any sense of honest thrill-making, it'd be honestly thrilling.
Wow! This doesn't make much sense to me. Here are a couple of the most confusing parts:
~~ "It won't be the same for moviegoers in New York or LA, where they're used to..."
What is "It"? Who are "they" - people in NY or people in LA?
~~ "metropoli"
Is that supposed to be the plural form of "metropolis"? I suggest you look that word up in a dictionary and find the correct spelling of the plural.
Are the *...* supposed to indicate adjectives and adverbs? Which are adjectives, and which are adverbs?
I'll get you started by saying that these are NOT adjectives or adverbs:
seeing
allusions
agitating
slide
There are many other true adjectives and adverbs in this write-up that you haven't indicated.
If this is the same assignment I've seen before, aren't you supposed to be using a minimum number of comparatives and superlatives?
Check these sites for information about these parts of speech.
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/adjAdv.asp
http://languagearts.pppst.com/adjectives-adverbs.html
This is not an assignment... I have to find a movie review and identify five adjectives and adverbs in it. I didn't write this myself. It is from the Chicago Tribune, I would post the link but am getting a message that I am not allowed to post internet addresses.
Obviously I am having difficulties with this or I would not have posted here. But hey thanks for your help, or lack there of, and for the critique of a movie critics writing
It always helps us if you give us ALL the information possible when you first post. (I still think it's badly written, but that's not your fault!!)
Try again to identify the adjectives and adverbs. The ones you indicated with *...* that are NOT in the list I gave you are all adjectives, no adverbs.
I'll do the first sentence for you:
It won't(not=adv) be the same for moviegoers in New York or LA, where they're used to seeing their respective(adj) metropoli roughed up by interstellar(adj) tourists with terrible(adj) attitudes.
Thank you, that is much more helpful.
I took a few minutes to read the grammar book website and found it helpful as well. I am still not completely sure about the adverbs though.
For adjectives I have interstellar, terrible, queasy, nominal and toppling
For adverbs I have wont, didnt, end of and honestly
(played by) adverb?
Your choices of adjectives are correct, yes.
The "not" in "didn't" and "won't" is correct for an adverb -- or two. And "honestly" is also an adverb.
However, "end of" (noun and preposition) and "played by" (verb and preposition) are not adverbs.
Make sure you read, re-read, and study those webpages I linked above. Adjectives are pretty easy to find; adverbs are not so easy. Study the explanations and examples in that first link, especially.
PS - There are only 3 adverbs in this paragraph.
For Chicagoans, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" holds a built-in interest level.Director Michael Bay, master of the known universe when it comes to soul-crushing blockbusters with insidious worldwide appeal, manages a couple of pleasing, borderline-coherent bits.
Here are two additional sentences. In the first sentence is holds used correctly as an adverb? In the second sentence I see plenty of adjectives but cant figure out where the adverb is in the sentence? manages, perhaps?
For Chicagoans, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" holds a built-in interest(adj) level. Director Michael Bay, master of the known(adj) universe when it comes to soul-crushing(adj) blockbusters with insidious(adj) worldwide(adj) appeal, manages a couple of pleasing(adj), borderline-coherent(adj) bits.
There are no adverbs in here.
"holds" = verb (the main verb of that sentence)