curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-about-adverbial-phrases/680b8f7d6d2437bf53a4fdca.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What is Maria's proposed solution?
To stop creating strategies altogether.
Maria does not want to stop using these strategies.
To improve the strategies that didn't work well.
To use the same strategies in every area.
She is not suggesting that they repeat what didn't work.
To remove the areas with weak results from the campaign.
Maria doesn't suggest removing anything.
2
Not very + adjective is often used to soften a negative description. Instead of directly saying something was bad or ineffective, speakers might say not very effective to sound more polite or less harsh. For example:
The meeting was not very helpful. – This is a softer way of saying the meeting did not help the team at all.
His presentation wasn't very clear. – This is more gentle than saying it was confusing or bad.
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