Please help me with this confusing grammar?

My grammar skills are a little rusty and I am not very good at explaining grammar, especialy to a non-native speaker, but I will give it a try. In your first example, "professionally" is an adverb, used to describe or modify a verb (or anything other than a noun). "Professional" is an adjective, used to describe a noun. Adverbs are usually identified by the "y" at the end of the word. Since "agricultural advisors" is a noun, the correct choice would be to use an adjective, in this case, "Professional". In your second example, "confirming", the "ing" at the end of the word demonstrates present tense of the word. "Confirm" (with out the "ing" at the end) idenitfies it as future tense. Examples of propper use would be "I will confirm..." (future tense) "I am confirming" (present tense) (bonus tip for you) The past tense of the word would be "Confirmed". Note the "ed at the end of the word, indicating past tense, as in "I have confirmed" I hope I have helped.

okay so this is why the first word is professional. You're describing something, right? Professional is an adjective, a word that describes a noun (which is agricultural advisors in this case). You cant use "professionally" because that's an adverb, which is used to describe a verb. look at the sentence: Many (blank) agricultural advisors were hired to boost the significantly declining industry. There's no verb before or after the blank, so you cant use an adverb. SO... you have to use an adjective which is "professionally". The second one is kinda tricky.. you cant use "confirming" since it isn't in past tense. The sentence says the speaker "called" which is past tense. You can't use confirm either. So.. that leaves 2 other words. Can't use confirmed since it doesn't make sense. The person is calling for something so can't be a verb. That leaves the last one, "confirmation" which is the right answer... Hope I helped

You are from Vietnam, English is not our first language. So English is new for us, to learn this we have read the English grammar. And coming to your doubts, Professional word is used as like to indicate a profession. Before this you just see the English to your language conversion meaning. Then, you will know the definition con firmly.

'Professional' is an adjective. So it has been used correctly to qualify the noun 'advisors'. 'For' is a preposition, so it should be followed by a noun or pronoun and here 'confirmation' is a noun.

First you have to figure out the part of speech of the words first. For the first one, advisors is a noun, so what you need is an adjective to modify (or say to describe) it. Professional is an adjective but professionally is an adverb. Adverbs are used to modify verbs, such as "quickly" in "she ran quickly", or "she performed professionally on stage" ("professionally" modifies the verb "performed"). So the answer should be B. professional. For the second one, it relates to the use of "for". According to Michael Swan, "For is used to talk about somebody's purpose in doing something, but only when it is followed by a noun", it cannot be used before a verb. So if you look at the answers, confirm, confirming and confirmed are all verbs, the only option left is C. confirmation, which is a noun. So the answer should be C. Please see if you understand.

I'm really sorry if it would be hard for me to explain it, but i think I am pretty sure the answers should not be changed. For number 1, the answer is professional and for number 2, it's confirmation.

I'm rubbish with the proper names for things, so I'll explain as best I can in normal words and by examples. 1. If you use "professionally" in the first sentence, it means the advisors were professionally agricultural. In this case, "agricultural advisors" is their title and they are professional, hence "professional agricultural advisors" like "professional teachers" or similar. 2. "Confirming" is an action. "Confirmation" is a noun. The speaker called for confirmation, like he would call for coffee or a chat. He could also "call TO confirm (something)".