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Difficulty: MediumAdjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers

Fill in the blank with the correct comparative form of the modifier to complete the sentence grammatically.

Answer:Although the debate became intense, the guest speaker expressed her arguments 【more persuasively】 than any of the other panelists.

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more persuasively
The gap modifies the action verb 'expressed' in a comparative construction established by 'than'. The comparative form of a multi-syllable adverb ending in '-ly' is correctly formed by placing 'more' before the adverb ('more persuasively').

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the part of speech being modified and the syntactic structure of the sentence.
The target word modifies the action verb 'expressed' within a clause containing the comparative marker 'than'.
Modifying an action verb requires an adverbial form, while the presence of 'than' signals that the comparative degree must be used.
2
Form the comparative degree for a multi-syllable adverb ending in '-ly'.
Combine the degree modifier 'more' with the base adverb 'persuasively' to yield 'more persuasively'.
Adverbs formed with the suffix '-ly' form their comparative degree by pre-modifying with 'more' rather than appending the suffix '-er'.

Key Concept

Comparative Adverbial Modification
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Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers

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