Last Friday, I went to Macdonald's at Changi Airport to have lunch with my friends.(Hong Kai,Jun Hong, Wayne, Joseph, Justin, Hugo, Ian and Jared ...) By right, Xiang Zheng was joining us at Macdonald's so Hong kai,Jun Hong and I waited at the foyer for him while he has a meeting with Mr. Leo and several other students from 2A.Little did we knew that, XZ changed his schedule last minute and decided to have lunch in school instead of joining us at Mac.( Darn him, make us
wait for so long >.<) We shouldn’t have waited for him if we had knew. In a jiffy, we arrived at Changi Airport. We hastened our speed towards Mac. Along the way, caught sight of a Signboard : Uniquely Singapore. It reminds me of a book called ‘ English as it is broken’, regarding the usage of the word ‘ Uniquely’ in the slogan. LMAO!! Q: The word ‘Uniquely’ is an adverb and not an adjective. An adverb is a part of speech that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb other than a noun. As such, we should say ‘Unique Singapore’ and not ‘Uniquely Singapore’. For example, we say ‘Happy Singapore’ and not ‘Happily Singapore’. A: Advertisers sometimes use language in an unconventional way for effect, so the language used in advertising has to be taken in its appropriate context. A slogan has to grab attention and capture the spirit of the product. Unique can be used as an adverb- e.g. this experience refers uniquely to Singapore We do say, ‘sincerely yours’… --------- After we had our meal, all of us went home…