when doing adjectives and adverbs, of the two football players, Herman was the heaviest.?

Question

grammer

Answer 1

Football players is the adjective, and heaviest is the adverb. "was" is an action word, adverbs describe action, so "was the heaviest"=is the action statement. This isn't rocket science.

Answer 2

Rewrite the sentence to read, Herman was the heaviest of the two football players. There are no adverbs since they end in ly, but you do have a phrase, which answers the question was what, the heaviest of the two football players and since was is a copula verb this becomes an adjective phrase modifying or completing or describing Herman. Within this phrase two and football modify players. They are adjectives.

Answer 3

I'm an English teacher. "Two" and "heaviest" are the adjectives. Some teachers would include "football" as an adjective which describes "players," but I wouldn't. There are no adverbs in this sentence.

(By the way, surfinthedesert is wrong: "was" is NOT an action verb. You can't "was" something. "Was" is a linking verb.)

"Heaviest" is a PREDICATE ADJECTIVE which describes Herman. An adverb modifies (describes) a verb, adjective, or another adverb.

Answer 4

Breaks down like this. Of the two(adjective;how many)football(adjective;describes noun)players(noun), Herman(noun)was(verb)the heaviest(adverb). Hope this helps.

Answer 5

There are no adverbs here because there are no verbs except the verb to be ie "was": "football" describes the players (player is not a verb) & so does "heaviest"...both are adjectives.

Answer 6

the rules for English have been only newly lay-ed down about 200 years before that it was an every changing language. Shakespeare did not follow the rules of the English language and misspelled often or made his own way of spelling words. but Upper class made the rules for language as it equalled power. but now we are back to the every changing ways again. it is changing now with technology. everything is so fast if we had to take time to fix language to rules it would be too long (texting) or take too much time and could sound pompous and old. English is now spoken differently so the influence come into writing. it has always been happening it cant be stopped. . after reading some of the other answers . also just in case Ive spell ed something wrong I'm dyslexic it makes me very angry when Ive try-ed my best to put together a nice answer to be told sorry you spell-ed this and that wrong. also yahoo spell check is terrible if you write long answers it wont work, if word look similar i cant tell the differences witch means it take me a lot longer to answer. if i had to apply the English rules also it would take me all day so bear in mind criticising bad grammar and spelling is very hurtful to someone with dyslexia.

Answer 7

I think you should use "heavier" not "heaviest" because you are comparing two things. This results in the intended meaning.