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supposed vs supposedly

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yamini
 Post subject: supposed vs supposedly
 Post Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:58 am 
Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.

(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly

Answer - B. why not D?

(I am not sure about the source of this question. I found it in my old notes)
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AB
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 Post Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:34 pm 
Hi Yamini,

This is one of the OG question. "supposedly" is an adverb so as Adverb can modify verb, adjective and adverb. In this question, "supposedly"(Adverb) is modifying "Mediterranean"(Adjective). That results in the change of the meaning i.e. It is saying Mediterranean is supposed, though original sentence is saying that "Mediterranean Predecessor" is supposed.

Thanks,

Aishwary
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RonPurewal
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 Post Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:36 am 
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We nailed this one here.

There's a search box on the upper right-hand corner of these forum pages. If you use it, typing in key words like 'Mediterranean' (i.e., don't type in things that YOU would use to find the problem but which make terrible search strings, like problem numbers), then you can save yourself a lot of typing time by finding relevant old posts.[/url]
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agautamdai
 Post subject: Re: supposed vs supposedly
 Post Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:43 pm 
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I made the same mistake, I thought that supposedly should be the right choice but because in the sentence it is not difined if objects that the monuments are being compared to are their predecessors, therefore we have to modify the predecessor which requires a supposed rather than supposedly.
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tim
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 Post Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:05 pm 
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