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• The verbs in the table above are not normally followed by adverbs. However, some of them can be followed by adverbs when the verb refers to an action.
✓ She looked angrily at the man behind the counter.
• After as, how, so, this ( = so), that ( = so) and too, adjectives come before the article.
✓ I could never live in as crowded a city as Tokyo.
✓ Tokyo's so/that crowded a city that I'd hate to live there.
✓ How crowded a city is Tokyo?
✓ I could never live in Tokyo - it's too crowded a city.
• Some adjectives only appear after a verb and not before a noun. These include adjectives beginning with a-, such as afraid, aghast, alike, alive, alone, asleep, awake, etc
✓ A boy was asleep in the street.
✘ There was an asleep boy in the street.
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