Adverb or Adjective? A thunderhead, dense clouds that rise..

**iguh_budi** · 03-10-2003, 05:47 AM

Dear all,

I quote another question from Baron here :

A thunderhead, dense clouds that rise high into the sky in huge columns, produce hail.

The question is : D, should be 'produces'

But I think the word 'high' is also wrong, it should be 'highly'

Am I right?

Thanks,

iguh

**vvaann** · 03-10-2003, 06:45 AM

hi iguh_budi,
"high", as an adverb, means "above ground", so the usage in this case is fine.

**hoang_luong** · 03-10-2003, 07:20 AM

The answer should be A, because "A" refers to singular noun but "cloudS" is in plural form. So "A" at the beginning of the sentence must be dropped for the sentence to be correct.

**hoang_luong** · 03-10-2003, 07:22 AM

A thunderhead, dense clouds -----> THE thunderhead, dense clouds

**vvaann** · 03-10-2003, 09:08 AM

do you think "the thunderhead" takes a plural verb, hoang_luong?

**ttaann** · 03-10-2003, 09:30 AM

Hi iguh_budi,

I quote another question from Baron here :

A thunderhead, dense clouds that rise high into the sky in huge columns, produce hail.

This isn't from Barron's at all but ETS TOEFL CBT. Barron's is just trying to exploit the cut-and-paste technique.

The answer should be A, because "A" refers to singular noun but "cloudS" is in plural form. So "A" at the beginning of the sentence must be dropped for the sentence to be correct.

This is a tricky one. I myself did this wrong too.

The key as iguh_budi said is D

**iguh_budi** · 03-11-2003, 12:19 AM

Dear vvaann

I am not sure that "high" is an adverb, because it modify rise (a verb), therefore should be "highly".

To Hoang luong

I don't agree with you, because "dense clouds .....' is an adjective clause that modify noun in which as Subject (A thunderhead), so the real Subject (A tunderhead) is Single Noun and verb "produce" should be "produces".

Pls, what is the answer ? C or D

Thanks

iguh

**vvaann** · 03-11-2003, 12:22 AM

D!

**muaxuan68** · 03-15-2003, 04:10 AM

Originally posted by hoang_luong

The answer should be A, because "A" refers to singular noun but "cloudS" is in plural form. So "A" at the beginning of the sentence must be dropped for the sentence to be correct.

A thunderhead, dense clouds ...

No! there's is no problem here. I started a thread containing this problem
a long time ago. Let's take a look back!
http://TestMagic.com/forum/topic.asp...13&whichpage=1

But I think the word 'high' is also wrong, it should be 'highly'

Yeah! "high" can act as an adverb.

As far as I remeber, in one of my grammar book it says some verbs can be follows by adjectives (Not counting in verbs like smell, taste..), telling the sate of the subject or result of the action.

For example,

The sky grows blue.

The corpse was buried deep in the bottom of the river. (The corpse is deep in the bottom of the river)

"deep" is called an adjetive.

Erin, in this case, to you "deep" is an adjective or adverb ?

**Erin** · 03-15-2003, 05:34 PM

This one's tricky. In my mind, I think you could argue that high is an adjective, and rise is a linking verb, or that high is an adverb. m-w.com says that it can be an adverb:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?high

I would tend to agree with the dictionary; I think high functions slightly more as an adverb than it does as an adjective.

Anyway, I think the easiest thing to do is memorize this pattern.