We are used to looking at adverbs as words ending in - LY. But there are some adverbs (without - LY looking alike adjectives. Here are some examples of such confusing adverbs:
1. I clean forgot the matter.
Here clean is not the word you are accustomed to using.. It means something different. It means COMPLETELY.
2. I'm dead certain I left my purse on the desk.
Here Dead means Completely. Please that DEADLY is an adjective which means fatal: a deadly virus
3. Does this train go direct to Edinburgh?
4. Take it easy.
5. We will play...
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