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以下嘅字全部都可以做 adverb，意思同埋用法有咩分別？
1. Children under three can travel (free / freely).
🔹free 指 free of charge 免費
e.g. You can consult that accountant abo...
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以下嘅字全部都可以做 adverb，意思同埋用法有咩分別？
1. Children under three can travel (free / freely).
🔹free 指 free of charge 免費
e.g. You can consult that accountant about the tax laws free.
🔸而 freely 指自由地，如果係 travel freely 指自由地旅遊，talk freely 指自由說話，write freely 指自由寫作。
✅ 因此呢條題目係 free 先啱，指免費旅行
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2. You guessed (right / rightly) – she's in a relationship.
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🔹雖然 right 同 rightly 都可以做 adverb，但係通常我哋用 verb + adverb 呢個 pattern，會比較用 right 呢個 adv. 表達正確地呢個意思，例如 write it right / say it right / think right
🔸相反，如果 adverb + verb 呢個 pattern
就應該用 rightly
e.g. You rightly pointed out ...
e.g. You rightly said that ...
✅ 所以呢條應該係 You guessed right!
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3. Don't spell the name (wrong / wrongly)!
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🔹wrong vs. wrongly 同 right vs. rightly 有少少分別，正如上一題講，我哋慣性用 verb + right 或 rightly + verb，不過 wrong vs. wrongly 喺結構上無咁嚴謹，如果用 wrong 就一定係 verb + wrong，例如 do something wrong / go wrong
✅ 甚至呢條 spell something wrong
🔸至於 wrongly，比較傳統嘅 grammar 要寫 wrongly + verb，例如 wrongly accuse sb. of sth. / wrongly claim，甚至係 wrongly spell something，但近代英文 contemporary English，特別係美式英文絕對接受 verb + wrongly，例如 act wrongly / do sth wrongly
✅ 所以呢條不論係 spell my name wrong / wrongly 都可以
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4. She's had trouble sleeping (late / lately).
🔹如果 late 飾演一個 adverb，指夜/ 遲，例如 arrive late 指遲到、work late 指工作到好夜，或者 she got up late 指遲咗起床，亦可以講明 ten minutes late / three days late 等
例如 The train came 20 minutes late.
但要小心，如果指一個人夜瞓，唔係 sleep late，而係 stay up late 先啱
🔸至於 lately = recently，解作近來，而個 verb form 必用 present perfect (have done) 或 present perfect continuous (have been doing)
e.g. What have you been doing lately/recently?
✅ 或者呢條 She has had trouble sleeping lately. 指近來有失眠問題 ———————————————————
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[時事英文] Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests
沒想到英文寫作可以用來預測阿爾茨海默症。
受試者當中應該沒有第二語言學習者吧。
音檔: https://bit.ly/3lcBTxr
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Alzheimer’s Prediction May Be Found in Writing Tests
阿爾茨海默症可以預測嗎？寫作測試也許提供了答案
Is it possible to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease simply by looking at writing patterns years before there are symptoms? According to a new study by IBM researchers, the answer is yes. And, they and others say that Alzheimer’s is just the beginning. People with a wide variety of neurological illnesses have distinctive language patterns that, investigators suspect, may serve as early warning signs of their diseases.
• Alzheimer’s disease 阿爾茨海默症
• symptoms 癥狀、症狀
• according to a new study 根據一個新研究
• a wide variety of 多種～的
• neurological illnesses 神經系統疾病
• distinctive language patterns 獨特的語言模式
• an early warning sign of ～的早期預警訊號
有沒有可能在出現癥狀之前的幾年裡，僅僅通過觀察書寫模式來預測誰會患上阿爾茨海默症？ 根據IBM研究人員的一項新研究，答案是肯定的。而且，他們和其他一些研究人員表示，阿爾茨海默症的預測只是開始。研究人員懷疑，患有多種神經系統疾病的人都有著獨特的語言模式，可能是他們疾病的早期預警信號。
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The researchers examined the subjects’ word usage with an artificial intelligence program that looked for subtle differences in language. It identified one group of subjects who were more repetitive in their word usage at that earlier time when all of them were cognitively normal. These subjects also made errors, such as spelling words wrongly or inappropriately capitalizing them, and they used telegraphic language, meaning language that has a simple grammatical structure and is missing subjects and words like “the,” “is” and “are.”
• word usage 詞彙使用情況
• subtle differences 細微差別
• artificial intelligence 人工智慧
• repetitive 重複的
• telegraphic language* 電報式語言
• simple grammatical structure 簡單的語法結構
研究人員利用一個人工智慧程序，檢查受試者的詞彙使用情況，尋找語言上的細微差別。他們鑒定出一組受試者，在早期所有人的認知能力都正常的情況下，他們的用詞重複情況更為嚴重。這些測試對象還會犯一些錯誤，比如拼寫錯誤或者大寫使用不當，而且會使用電報式語言——語法結構簡單，漏掉主語以及「the」、「is」和「are」這樣的詞。
*telegraphic language is speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children, which is laconic and efficient but lack of function words, tense and plural endings on nouns.
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The members of that group turned out to be the people who developed Alzheimer’s disease. The A.I. program predicted, with 75 percent accuracy, who would get Alzheimer’s disease, according to results published recently in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine. “We had no prior assumption that word usage would show anything,” said Ajay Royyuru, vice president of health care and life sciences research at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where the A.I. analysis was done.
• develop a disease 患上疾病
• with % accuracy 準確率達～％
• no prior assumption 沒有先想到、先假設到
• usage （詞語或語言的）用法
• A.I. analysis 人工智慧分析
這群人後來都患上了阿爾茨海默症。根據《柳葉刀》(The Lancet)子刊《臨床醫學》(EClinicalMedicine)最近發表的研究結果，該人工智慧能夠預測誰將患上阿爾茨海默症，準確率達75%。「我們之前沒有想到用詞情況還有這個用途，」紐約州約克敦高地的IBM托馬斯·沃森研究中心(IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)醫療保健和生命科學研究副總裁阿賈伊·羅伊尤魯(Ajay Royyuru)說。人工智慧分析就是在該中心進行的。
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文章來自《紐約時報》: https://nyti.ms/3pXsI5l
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