A%20Remedial%20English%20Grammar

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A Remedial English Grammar
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CHAPTERS

• ARTICLES
• AGREEMENT OF VERB AND SUBJECT
• CONCORD OF NOUNS, PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVE
  ADJECTIVES
• CONFUSION OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
• DIFFICULTIES WITH COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVES
• CONFUSION OF PARTICIPLES ACTIVE PASSIVE
• PREPOSITIONS
• NEGATIVE VERBS
• TENSES 1, 2 3
• THE INFINITIVE

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Adjectival Complements
• The verbs to be, to seem, to become and verbs
  which suggest become are followed by an
  adjective. (Other verbs include appear, feel,
  look, grow, turn)
• E.g. Oranges are scarce this year.
• He became very angry.
• The milk turned sour.
• The sky grew dark.
• The structure is S v adj

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Some of the earlier mentioned verbs can be used
  in a different sense when they need an adverb.
• E.g. He turned quickly (means move around)
• Those rose trees have grown rapidly
  (means increase in size)
• Here the structure is S v adv

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• 2. An adjective is used after verbs
  indicating fundamental physical senses such as
  feel, sound, taste, smell.
• E.g. The fruit tastes bitter
• The surface of this table feels rough
• Here the structure is S v (sense) adj

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Words ending in ly
• Adverbs of manner can be formed from adjectives
  by adding ly to the suffix
• E.g. foolishly, quickly, slowly
• But if the adjective itself carry an ly suffix
  then it cannot be converted as stated above. They
  are of two categories.

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Those which are used both as adjectives and
  adverbs without any change. E.g. daily, early,
  hourly, only, weekly, yearly.
• Those which can be used as adjectives only. E.g.
  brotherly, friendly, homely, likely, lovely,
  manly, seemly, womanly.
• The adverbial equivalent of kindly (adjective)
  is in a kindly manner.

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Use of hard/hardly, late/lately, most/mostly
• Hard means strenuously
• E.g. You should work hard for attaining success.
• Hardly means scarcely at all
• E.g. I could hardly recognize my old friend.

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Late means
• After the time expected
• Towards the end of the specified period of time
• She has arrived late to the class
• She did not marry until late in life
• Lately means recently
• Have you read any good novels lately
• (It makes use of only perfect tense unlike
  recently which can be used with perfect or past)

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Confusion of adjectives and adverbs

• Most means to the greatest extent or degree
• E.g. The food I like the most is milk porridge.
• Mostly means for the most part
• E.g. The audience consisted mostly of children.