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raewon
Joined: 16 Jun 2009
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 Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject: high versus highly question |
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I've got a word usage question for you. Which is correct to complete the following sentence, "high" or "highly" (or both)?
They�re _______ processed foods designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from organic farms.
I'd use "highly" here, but I need to make sure that "high" is indeed incorrect. Google returns many hits for "high processed foods" though not nearly as many as "highly processed".
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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They�re _______ processed foods designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from organic farms.
I'd use "highly" here, but I need to make sure that "high" is indeed incorrect. Google returns many hits for "high processed foods" though not nearly as many as "highly processed". |
I'll venture an answer. To me these questions are irritating because more than one answer is possible. I would say "highly" as it forms a chain of adverb + adjective + noun (highly processed foods). You could possibly say "high processed" is a compound adjective ("a high process function") and this is maybe what Google is producing, but I think the former is better. |
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ChilgokBlackHole
Joined: 21 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Use a dictionary. Adjectives modify nouns. Adverbs don't. High is an adjective in that sentence and can't modify the adjective "processed" because processed isn't a noun in that sentence. Highly is an adverb, and can therefore modify the adjective. |
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