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mimi2

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vietnam vietnamese
Is this sentence right? I think it must be "astonishedly"
"I took my exercise books and looked at them astonished."
Thanks.
I would say "I took my exercise books and looked at them in astonishment."
The sentence is grammatical, Mimi, but very subtly so. You might think "astonished" modifies the verb. If it had, then "astonishedly" would have been correct. In this case, it is used to modify the subject. It means the speaker was astonished when he looked at the exercise books.
Hello Mimi,

You could rewrite the sentence as follows to make it clearer:
- I took my exercise books and looked at them, astonished.

Or you could move 'astonished' around:
- I took my exercise books and, astonished, stared at them for fifteen minutes.
[I changed the verb to make the sentence sound more natural, but the grammar is the same.]
Thanks all of you a lot.
Thanks to all your help I understand the sentence very clearly.
I am very glad to say so. Thanks very much.
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