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Identify the grammatical error in the sentence: "Do the roses in your garden smell more sweetly than those in ours?"
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Do the roses in your garden smell
more sweetly
than those in ours?
No error.
Solution:
Step 1: Analyze the verb 'smell' in this context. Step 2: When a sensory verb like 'smell', 'feel', 'taste', 'look', or 'sound' describes a quality of the subject, it functions as a linking verb and should be followed by an adjective, not an adverb. Step 3: 'Sweetly' is an adverb, while 'sweet' is an adjective. To make a comparison, the comparative form of the adjective 'sweet' is 'sweeter'. Step 4: Therefore, the segment "more sweetly" is incorrect. The correct phrase should be "sweeter".
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