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LEARNED 🇺🇸 = LEARNT 🇬🇧 = past tense of “learn.”

But only “learned” (scholarly) can also be an adjective: a *learned* [LUR-nid] teacher. 👓
PARAMOUNT = Top; supreme in rank

TANTAMOUNT = equal

The hospital’s *paramount* doctor 😷🏥 declared that smoking 🚬 is *tantamount* to death. 💀
Are you listening to me?👂
Usually 'dead' is an adjective as in, he is grieving for his dead father.'deadly' is an adverb means 'extremely" as in ;
- a deadly boring play.
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In reality, the word 'dead' is ( adj+adv+noun)

as an adverb means completely
You’re dead right!
an a noun:
- in the dead of night
-Never speak ill of the dead
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deadly also an adjective means likely to kill. as in
a deadly weapon , a deadly poison
or "complete" as in
a deadly silence
a deadly secret
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How about " DEATHLY"?😉
Causative verbs ( let-make - have - get)
causative cases (all in one)
The meeting is scheduled ........ 9.00 a.m on Tuesday.
a- on
b- at
c- for
d- from

ANSWER: c- for

When speaking of an event in the future you would generally use "for":
We've scheduled it for Friday May 18th.

But if you were speaking of the past you might use "on" instead.
They scheduled it on a Friday when I wasn't able to make it.
Help me ............. this .

a doing
b to do
c do
d does

ANSWER: ( b & c)

The verb 'help' is not used with the -ing form of another verb. It is used with the infinitive (with or without 'to') in any of these patterns:

help do something
help to do something
help someone do something
help someone to do something