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I had a good shot at the goal.

I had a good shoot at the goal.

Shoot (in football) is the verb. The noun is shot.

Jill loved money; she was a miser.

Jill loved money; she was miser.

Miser i s a noun, and we can't use it as an adjective. The adjective is miserly: She was miserly.

There's a pain in my leg.

My leg is paining.

We generally use pain as a noun, and precede it by have or feel.

The little girl sang beautiful.

The little girl sang beautifully.

We use an adverb, and not an adjective, to qualify a verb.

After verbs such as look, feel, sound, taste, smell use an adjective instead of an adverb: Sugar tastes sweet (not sweetly).

Anne said to me, 'You're fool.'

Anne said to me, 'You're a fool.'

Anne said to me, 'You're a foolish.'

Anne said to me, 'You're foolish.'

Fool is a noun, and requires the article when we use it with the verb to be. Foolish is an adjective, and can't be used with the article after the verb to be.

A fool or a foolish person doesn't mean an insane person, but one who acts thoughtlessly. We tend to use silly or stupid instead of foolish in modern usage.

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