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Review: Adverbs and Adjectives, Answer 8.1
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- Question:
- Sunita followed the recipe closely, but the cake smelled after twenty minutes in the oven.
- Answer:
- The answer strange is correct.
- Explanation:
- The adjective strange is correct because it is describing the noun cake, not the verb smelled. Smelled is a linking verb here, and strange is its subject complement. Remember that subject complements are always nouns or adjectives, never adverbs.
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