Adjective or adverb? | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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[Adjective or adverb? #1]
FOCUS: The use of adjectives vs. adverbs.
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises:

1) Search for "treated differently" and "treated different"; which of the two expressions can be found in the corpus?
treated differently
treated different
both
none

2) Search for "quite different" and "quite differently"; which of the two phrases is most commonly used in the corpus?
quite different
quite differently
equally common (same number of hits)

3) Search for "was very poor" and "was very poorly"; which of the two expressions can be found in the corpus?
was very poor
was very poorly
both
neither

4) Search for "poorly"; in lines 5 and 7 it functions as an adverb and is closest in meaning to which of the following? (Sort concordances by keyword.)
lacking money
badly
in poor health

5) Sort concordances by right word and search for "poorly" again; in line 2 "poorly" is used as an adjective and is closest in meaning to which of the following?
lacking money
badly
in poor health

6) Based on the corpus search results do you typically "do bad" or "look bad" in English?
do bad
look bad
either
neither

7) Search for the expression "doing well"; from the context it is clear that it is closest in meaning to which of the following?
to be nice
to get along OK
to do good works

8) Search for the expression "doing good"; in substandard English the expression is sometimes used with the same meaning as "doing well", but which of the following is its standard meaning (and its most common meaning in the corpus)?
to be nice
to get along OK
to do good works


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