Question

Fill in the blank with the most suitable adjective and adverb:
The weather is _______ cold today. The weather is _________.
A) awful, awfully
B) awfully, awful
C) awful, awful
D) awfully, awfully

Answer 1

Hint:Choose the option which will be grammatically correct. Also we must see that the selected option will make the sentence meaningful and we must know about the describing word and modifier.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Let’s first understand what does adjective and adverb means.
Adjective: Words that tell us more about naming words are called adjectives or describing words. In the other word we may define an Adjective as a word used with a noun to add something for its meaning.
Example: 1) The lazy boy was punished.
2) The boy is lazy.
In Sentence 1, the Adjective ‘lazy’ is used along with the noun ‘boy’ as an attribute.
In Sentence 2, the Adjective ‘lazy’ is used along with the verb ‘is’ and forms part of the Predicate.
Adverb: An Adverb is a word which modifies the meaning of a Verb, an Adjective or another Adverb.
Example: 1) Rama runs quickly.
2) This is a very sweet mango.
3) Govind reads quite clearly.
In Sentence 1, quickly shows how or in what manner Rama runs; that is, quickly modifies the verb ‘runs’.
In Sentence 2, very shows how much the mango is sweet; that is, ‘very’ modifies the Adjective sweet.
In Sentence 3, quite shows how far or to what extent Govind reads clearly; that is, ‘quite’ modifies the Adverb clearly.
Now as per above explanation is simply clear to choose appropriate option for the given question above.
The first sentence requires an adverb to describe how cold the weather is, and second sentence requires an adjective to describe the weather.
So the option [B] awfully, awful is appropriate for the given question because here the word ‘awfully’ is an Adverb which is describing how cold the weather is, and the word ‘awful’ is an Adjective which is describing the weather.

Note:For choosing the correct option you should know the actual meaning of the given question.
Study of parts of speech is necessary (a category of words that have similar grammatical properties).