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Use Adjectives after Linking Verbs



Yes/No
Each of the following sentences contains at least one adjective or adverb. Indicate if the sentences are correct (Yes) or incorrect (No).
 

 1. 

The parents seem angrily about the child’s report card.
 

 2. 

The speaker talked knowingly about prehistoric fossils.
 

 3. 

After she drank the lemonade, the cake tasted too sweetly to her.
 

 4. 

Throughout dinner we were bored because he spoke incessantly.
 

 5. 

Sam felt terribly depressed after the accident.
 

 6. 

The neighbor appeared calm in spite of the fact that his house was on fire.
 

 7. 

Marla jumped up quick when she heard the gunshot.
 

 8. 

He looked quite unhappily at the thought of leaving his job.
 

 9. 

Even though we were not really hungry, the food smelled delicious.
 

 10. 

The history course that I took last semester proved more difficultly than I had expected.
 



 
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