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title: Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

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The 15 questions of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t1/) — Your mate writes "the massive huge giant spider". What would you tell him? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t2/) — Your little cousin says "a wooden old lovely box". How would most people say it? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t3/) — Gran from Dudley says "Ow bist? That cake was bostin'!" ("Ow bist" means how are you.) What does she think of the cake? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t4/) — A teacher asks "Which word tells you how often in 'We often swim'?" — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t5/) — Your brother insists "every -ly word is an adverb, end of." What sentence proves him wrong? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t6/) — A boomer coach shouts "you guys did rad today, played real good!" ("Rad" means great.) In school writing, how would you put his praise? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t7/) — What would happen if English had no adverbs? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t8/) — Zoe says "worse" must be a spelling mistake for "badder". What's true? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t9/) — Grandad, hearing "wicked" from a Bostonian, thinks the pizza is evil. What's the best way to explain? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t10/) — A Gen Z kid says "she literally ate the exam, no cap." What's going on? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/t11/) — Your mate says "Dickens never used literally just to exaggerate, kids started that." What's true? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the function of an adverb? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/e2/) — Select the sequence of adjectives consistent with the established conventions of English. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/e3/) — Identify the correctly formed comparative and superlative of the adjective "good". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/e4/) — In respect of the word "friendly" in the phrase "a friendly dog", which statement is consistent with the established facts? — wrong ✗ · exam

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