Adjectives and adverbs

Adjectives and adverbs - 1

What are adjectives?
Adjectives are words that tell us something about a noun, pronoun, impression or situation.

What do adjectives modify?
Adjectives can modify nouns or pronouns/names.

person

thing

Mandy is a careful girl

This is a nice car

Mandy is careful

The car is nice

She is careful

It is nice


Where do adjectives go?
An adjective can be put before the noun. Then it is an attribute.

person

thing

Mandy is a careful girl

This is a nice car

 

An adjective can be put after the verb to be (is).
Then it is part of the predicate.

person

thing

The girl is careful

This car is nice


Adjectives can also put after the following verbs:
to + appear, become, feel, get, go, keep, turn, look, like, smell, sound, taste and other verbs of experience.

Examples:

  • The steak smells fantastic
  • She turned red
  • He got excited
  • It tastes awful

Adjectives and adverbs - 2

What are adverbs?
Adverbs tell us in what way someone does something.
Adverbs can modify verbs (here: drive), adjectives or other adverbs.

adjective

adverb

Mandy is a careful girl

Mandy drives carefully

She is very careful

She drives carefully


Explanation:
Mandy is a careful driver.
This sentence is about Mandy, the driver, so use the adjective.

Mandy drives carefully.
This sentence is about her way of driving, so use the adverb

Form of the adverb: adjective + -ly

adjective

adverb

dangerous

dangerously

careful

carefully

nice

nicely

horrible

horribly

easy

easily

electronic

electronically


Adverbs formed from adjectives ending -y, pronounced like Dutch 'ie'
If the adjective ends in -y, change the final -y to -i. Then add -ly:
happy - happily
but:
shy – shyly (the 'y' in 'shy' does not sound like Dutch 'ie'.)

Adjectives and adverbs - 3

Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -le
If the adjective ends in -le, drop the -e, and replace it with -y:
terrible – terribly

Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -e
If the adjective ends in -e, then add -ly:
safe - safely

Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs:

  • adjectives, ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly
  • nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy
  • verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply

There is no separate adverb for an adjective already ending in -ly.

Irregular forms
There are some irregular forms, where the adverb has a stem that differs from the adjective. Other irregular forms show no difference between the adjective and the adverb.

adjective

adverb

good

well

fast

fast

hard

hard

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