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Originally Posted by Dingus
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I think the faint adjective does apply to the character of blue.
So as wasleys says:
It should be either: faint blue or faintly bluish
I think the term "faintly bluish" is used because the writer is not very sure whether it is blue at all; it is a color approaching blue. So it is faintly bluish. If the writer had said bluish alone, then the sentence would carry more conviction about the color of ozone.
Chemical is a noun. Ask yourself: Ozone is active in what way? --> Chemically active.
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Dingus,
Chemical is not a noun, it is an adjective ! Chemicals is a noun.
I recall doing a structure question that was something like this :
The major
economic activities of Cheyenne, Wyoming,
include transportation,
chemicals, tourism,
but governmental activities.
Here "chemicals" is correct because is a noun and it forms a parallel structure with transportation and tourism. The wrong answer here is "but" should be "and" or "as well as".
So going back to our sentence
38. Ozone is
an unstable
faintly bluish gas
that is the most
chemical active form of oxygen.
Here ETS tests the pattern ADV+ADJ+NOUN. The first adjective which is in the front of the second adjective becomes an adverb in order to modify it
.
So that is why chemical becomes chemically
. I think I finally got it
.
This answer is also for bobtuti.
Best regards,
Michael.