Some adjectives, especially those that begin with a- , can only used predicatively, e.g. alike, alive, alone, asleep, astir, awake Fill in the blanks with the adjectives given above: (1) The two brothers are only ________ in appearance. (2) Mother found Mike still _____ when she came into his room at eight in the morning. (3) In spite of the hard winter, the roses in our garden are still ________. (4) I got a splitting headache. It kept me ______ the whole night. (5) Mrs. Stone was really quite ________ in the world except for an aged aunt in Philadelphia. (6) The whole nation was ______ when news came that China’s Shenzhou-6 spacecraft had been successfully launched.