Fill in the blanks.
1He narrated the incident in ...............
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The fixed phrase is "in detail" when something is described fully.
2We ............... see elephants or bears.
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"Rarely" means not often and fits with seeing elephants or bears.
3It ............... rained this summer.
Select 2 answers.
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"Hardly" and "scarcely" mean almost not at all and fit with the amount of rain this summer; "hard" means with effort.
4The movie was ............... interesting.
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"So" intensifies the adjective without suggesting an undesirable excess.
5It was ............... an unexpected situation that I didn’t know how to respond.
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"Such" is used before an adjective plus a noun in this result structure.
6The lecture was ............... boring.
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"Quite" can naturally intensify the negative adjective "boring"; "very much" is not used before an adjective like this.
7I feel ............... about it.
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"Bad" is an adjective complement after "feel" when describing an emotion.
8He behaved ...............
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"In a cowardly manner" is the adverbial phrase that describes how he behaved.
9She has a ............... smile.
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"Lovely" is an adjective that describes the noun "smile".
10She is ............... short.
Select 2 answers.
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"Quite" and "rather" can both modify the adjective "short" naturally; "too much" cannot be used before an adjective like this.
11He is getting ............... day by day.
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"Better" is the comparative form used for a change over time.
12He ............... resembles his father.
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"Closely" is the adverb used with "resembles" to mean very much like.
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- He narrated the incident in detail.
- We rarely see elephants or bears.
- It hardly / scarcely rained this summer.
- The movie was so interesting.
- It was such an unexpected situation that I didn’t know how to respond.
- The lecture was quite boring.
- I feel bad about it.
- He behaved in a cowardly manner.
- She has a lovely smile.
- She is quite / rather short.
- He is getting better day by day.
- He closely resembles his father.