safe-safer-safety-safely

The most common mistake related to adjectives x adverbs pilots make during classes is the one with the words : safe /safety/safely/ safer

Safe is an adjective and it modifies a noun : The Airbus 320 is a safe airplane.

Safer is the comparative of superiority: Airplane x is safer than airplane y.

Safety is the noun : For your safety remain seated with your seatbelts fastened.

Safety : personal freedom for physical harm·

Security : prevention of loss or damage They have installed a new security system in the building.

Safely is the adverb. Adverbs answer to the question “How”? : The pilot landed safely.

Practice : Adverbs of Manner

We can form this type of adverb by adding LY to an adjective.

I asked the controller to speak slowly.

The pilot checked the system carefully before calling the mechanics.

Despite the rain, they landed safely.

·The adjective GOOD doesn’t follow the rule.

He is good at computers. He speaks English well.

·Some adverbs and adjectives are the same, such as : fast, hard, late, high, low, right, wrong.

He speaks English fast.

This plane flies high.

The alarm sounded low.

He worked hard to have that problem sorted out.

· Some adjectives finish in LY, but they are not adverbs:

In a lively, friendly, silly way, manner.

·We use adjectives to describe nouns ; we use adverbs to say how things happen.

This bus is slow. This bus goes slowly.

EXERCISES

1. Write the adverb forms of these adjectives

a.sligh …………………..

b.hard ………………....

c.bad…………………….

d.slow ……………….....

e.fast…………………….

f.quiet ……………….....

g. safe…………………...

h.continuous …………

i.careful ………………..

j..quick ………………...

2. Underline the correct form :

a.This all happened very quick/ quickly, but there were several factors that could have changed what happened.

b.It is clear that the weather was changing rapidly/rapid during the time of our approach to landing.

c.The worst indication was wide/widely scattered light rain north of ZZZ VOR.'

d.I was then able to success/ successfully utilize the autopilot to fly a basic heading and hold an altitude.

e.The decision of ATC to immediate/immediately intervene and render me assistance was paramount to the successful /successfully outcome of this event.

f.The plane was shaking violently/violent with all the ice on the props. I had had the ice systems on maximum the entire flight.

g.The 4 of us worked efficient/ efficiently and cohesive/cohesively to execute a safe return to the gate.

h.A B747-400 slid and yawed uncontrollable/ uncontrollably about 120 degrees with the brakesapplied as it turned toward its gate on a taxiway in freezing rain.

i.I immediately pulled the mixture to idle cutoffand the airplane came to a stop on a heading of about 220 degrees.

3.Use the prompts to write sentences:

a.captain levers of to the immediately thrust pushed up the aircraft control regain.……………………………………………………………………………………………………
b. the climb behave the roll initial and airplane normally on take off
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c. nose up the up aggressively to pitched aircraft 10-12 degrees.
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d. incessantly the ringing cabin was phone.
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e. bounce hard the left firm and aircraft rolled with touchdown
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