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hanuman_2000

#83405 Thu, 24 Mar 05 03:50 AM

Hello Teachers,

1.He is really a good boy.

2.He is a really good boy.

I want to know that if there is an adjective modifying a singular noun and an adverb modifying that adjective then where I should put the article.

Which one is correct?

Thanks.

hanuman_2000

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CalifJim

#83411 Thu, 24 Mar 05 04:08 AM

For the situation you describe you want the article before both the adverb and the adjective.

He is a really good boy.
She is a very talented singer.
Henry is a rather sickening sight this morning. ( Smile [:)]

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CJ

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khoff

#83445 Thu, 24 Mar 05 06:21 AM

Your sentence (1) is also a correct sentence, but has a different meaning: He is truely a good boy. (I know he has been arrested three times this month, but he is really a good boy - he has just had some bad luck lately.) Sentence (2) is the situation you describe, where "really" serves as an adverb modifying "good and meaning the same as "very."

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