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Discussion questions and exercise tasks: I. Consider your answers to the following:

1. 
   Mention the groups, into which adverbs are subdivided as a class of lexemes, taking into account their grammatical and semantic characteristics. Provide examples in both contrasted languages.
   
2. 
   Mention the allomorphic groups of adverbs in both contrasted languages.
   
3. 
   Characterize adverb as a part of speech (think of the number of grammatical categories, typical stem-building elements, combinability, syntactic functions). Do these characteristics differ in the contrasted languages?
   
4. 
   Describe the grammatical categories of adverb as a part of speech. Does their number differ in the contrasted languages?
   
5. 
   Define the category of the degrees of comparison of adverbs as a grammatical phenomenon. State the basic similarities and differences in its manifestation English and Ukrainian languages.
   
6. 
   Characterize English statives (words of the category of state as apart of speech).
   

7. Dwell upon the controversial points of differentiating
Ukrainian words of the category of state into a separate part of speech.
II. Underline all adjectives and circle all adverbs in the sentences below. Classify each adjective as either attributive or predicative, and each adverb as either a modifier in a phrase or an adverbial.

1. 
   They were cute invitations, weren't they? (conversation)
   
2. 
   That looks pretty good (conversation).
   
3. 
   [From a discussion of the meaning of "wild boar"] Can it be far­med intensively or should it be reared extensively? (newspaper writing).
   

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4. 
   Here there are eight shared electrons; therefore methane is uncharged (academic writing).
   
5. 
   The initial objective is to identify areas within cities which exhibit distinctive characteristics and which can be shown to be relatively homogeneous (academic writing).
   

6. The Russian airline was also interested in starting a
transatlantic service (newspaper writing).
7. The drive that motivates distinctive individual behavioral
patterns (personality) is to a considerable degree subconscious
(academic writing).
*The material is taken from "Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Workbook" by Susan Conrad, Douglas Biber, Geoffrey Leech, Pearson Education Limited, 2003. - P.48.