Adjective /Adverb

Adjective /Adverb
Message from chint posted on 29-10-2013 at 04:16:35 (D | E | F)
Hi guys,

Just a small question about adjective and adverb.
Hospitals need to be keep kept (clean or cleanly).
My answer was going to be cleanly since I thought we have to put adverb after verb.
But this answer is clean.
Why is the answer is clean? could clean be an adverb?
Thank you,
chint

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Edited by lucile83 on 29-10-2013 07:53

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Re: Adjective /Adverb from friendlyricain, posted on 29-10-2013 at 06:27:34 (D | E)
Hello,

Well first off the question should read:
"Hospitals need to be kept" not keep (or perhaps that was a typo on your part?)
And it is not an adverb in this situation because clean is describing how the hospital should be, it's not describing how the action is performed.

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Edited by friendlyricain on 29-10-2013 06:29

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Edited by lucile83 on 29-10-2013 07:56

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Re: Adjective /Adverb from simplicius, posted on 29-10-2013 at 06:45:26 (D | E)
Hello,

"Hospitals need to be keep kept clean" is the only valid option.
Sometimes adjectives also work as adverbs but that is not what is happening here.
In this sentence clean is an adjective, which applies to the noun Hospitals, just as in "Hospitals are clean".

Adjectives work in to ways:
1) attributive: I like clean hospitals; here 'clean' describes hospitals and is next to it
2) predicative: Hospitals are clean, Hospitals need to be kept clean; here 'clean' also applies to hospitals through the verbs 'are', 'be kept'
So, to be precise, clean is a predicative adjective here. The adverb cleanly doesn't work, because it would apply to the verb 'be kept', not to the noun hospital. Here is an example:
The hospital is clearly old.
Here 'old' is an adjective which applies to 'hospital', and 'clearly' is an adverb which applies to the verb 'is', and tells you something about the whole statement: what is clear is not the hospital, but the fact that the hospital is old.

I hope this helps. Cheers, S.

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Edited by lucile83 on 29-10-2013 07:57
No French here. It has been erased.

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Re: Adjective /Adverb from chint, posted on 29-10-2013 at 07:30:15 (D | E)
Thanks guys,
Sorry, as you guys say that it's not "keep", it was "kept"...

Adjective describes none, right? So, I'm so surprised clean is put at the end of the sentence.
Well, I have to do more exsisise exercises and find out similar sentences.
Thanks anyway,

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Edited by lucile83 on 29-10-2013 08:01

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Re: Adjective /Adverb from arashmoha, posted on 30-10-2013 at 16:12:21 (D | E)
I had the same problem.Thank you

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