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Good Marks Reasonable Fairly/Quite Adverb Team Played Saturday

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Keyword reasonable
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence She usually gets reasonable good marks.
Correct Sentence She usually gets reasonably good marks.
Cloze Error Sentence She usually gets [[reasonable]] good marks.
Cloze Sentence She usually gets [[reasonably]] good marks.
Cloze Answer reasonably
Choices reasonable | reasonably
Explanation

When you mean 'fairly/quite', use reasonably (adverb): 'The team played reasonably well on Saturday, but something was missing in the attack.'

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