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exercise correct answer
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mad_rdg
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exercise correct answer
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He has always had a ____ career as a
writer.
a) highly successfully
b) highly succesful
c) high
successful
d) high successfully
I recevied an answer about this exercise (right answer - "c") but i �ve just checked the answer key and the right answer is "b"...Could you help me?!? Perhaps there �s a printing error, I don �t know...
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29 Jun 2010
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silviamvdeo
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B is the correct answer since in order to qualify an adjective (successful), we use an adverb (highly).
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29 Jun 2010
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sp.watson
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As Sylvia says, B is the correct answer.
I think this area causes a lot of confusion as "high" can act as an adjective and be stacked with other adjectives as in "a high, lonely mountain". But in the example you give the context tells us that it is acting as a modifying adverb and so "highly successful" is the only option that works.
As with many aspects of English grammar, context is everything!
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29 Jun 2010
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GIOVANNI
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I would use(b) highly successful because the adverb modifier is highly and it modifies the adjective successful. |
29 Jun 2010
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MyFairy
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 I agree with you guys! This is an adverb modifying an adjective!!! |
29 Jun 2010
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class centre
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if you take into account that highly = very , everything will be clear, won �t it?
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29 Jun 2010
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tastybrain
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The answer is B, though it is spelled incorrectly in your post (probably just a typo, I �m guessing).
"highly" is an adverb modifying the adjective "successful". Successful must be an adjective here because it is modifying the noun "career".
Hope that helps.
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29 Jun 2010
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