Complete the following sentences with an appropriate word or phrase.
1Sid can play tennis as ............... as his brother.
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Use the adverb "well" after the verb phrase "can play" to describe how Sid plays.
2The match had hardly begun ............... it started raining.
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The correlative phrase is "hardly" with "when" to show one event happened immediately after another.
3That was ............... a mistake.
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Use the adverb "surely" to modify the whole idea that it was a mistake.
4He talks more ............... than his brother. Needless to say, he is the more popular of the two.
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Use the adverb "pleasantly" to describe how he talks.
5When you become a parent, you will think ............... about children.
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Use the adverb "differently" to describe how you will think.
6I felt ............... about not having won the championship.
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Use the adjective "bad" after the linking verb "felt" to describe a feeling.
7Winning is not ............... as important as playing well.
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Use "nearly" in "not nearly as" to mean much less than.
8His behavior seemed a little ...............
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Use the adjective "odd" after the linking verb "seemed" to describe his behavior.
9He didn’t run ............... enough to qualify for the race.
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Use the adverb "well" to describe how he ran.
10We could ............... see the snow-capped mountains at a distance.
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Use the adverb "clearly" to describe how we could see the mountains.
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- Sid can play tennis as well as his brother.
- The match had hardly begun when it started raining.
- That was surely a mistake.
- He talks more pleasantly than his brother. Needless to say, he is the more popular of the two.
- When you become a parent, you will think differently about children.
- I felt bad about not having won the championship.
- Winning is not nearly as important as playing well.
- His behavior seemed a little odd.
- He didn’t run well enough to qualify for the race.
- We could clearly see the snow-capped mountains at a distance.