17 Read the following story. Are the words which follow the letters a-t adjectives (describing nouns) or adverbs (describing verbs)? I was in a hurry. I was going to meet my girlfriend at six o'clock (a) sharp. I'd had a (b) late meeting and so got to the bus stop (c) late and missed my bus. I decided to walk home the short way. In most big cities you can see people sleeping (d) rough, and my route took me past a very (e) rough area where there were lots of dangerous- looking people. I had chosen (f) wrong. My fault. Someone started shouting at me. I looked around. A man with an (g) extremely (h) ugly face was shouting at me, and many of his friends were getting up. The situation was turning (i) ugly. One of the men put his foot out and I fell (j) flat on my face. I was in (k) deadly danger. At that moment a car roared round the corner and stopped (1) short. My grandmother (who had never driven in her life) called out my name. I'm a (m) cowardly kind of guy, so I jumped up and got into her car. We roared away. She drove (n) fast. She was driving a (o) fast car. 'I haven't seen much of you (p) lately,' she said. I said nothing. I wasn't feeling too good. 'Can I talk (q) freely?' she said, and when I agreed she went on, 'you've learnt your lesson the (r) hard way. Don't go to that area again.' At that moment, we reached the crossroads and she hit the brakes (s) hard, and turned to tell me off a bit more. But I could (t) hardly hear her. Her voice was disappearing into the distance.... Then I woke up. It had all been a terrible dream. Find examples from the text for each of the following explanations. 1 Some adjectives look just like adverbs (e.g. ...) and some adverbs look just like adjectives (e.g. ...). You can tell which is which by seeing whether they are describing a noun or a verb. 2 Some words can be both adjectives and adverbs (e.g. ...). 3 Some adverbs can have more than one form (e.g. ...).​