Adjectives and
Adverbs
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Adjectives describe
nouns. They have the
same form in the
singular and plural.
a red car –
(two) red cars
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Adjectives go before nouns or
can be used alone after the
verb to be and after verbs
such as look, smell, sound, feel,
taste etc.
a large box;
Mary is tall. You look
sad. It smells horrible.
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There are two kinds of adjectives:
Opinion adjectives
Fact adjectives
Show what a person thinks
of somebody or something
beautiful, lovely, great,
expensive, etc.
Give us factual information
about somebody or
something (size, weight,
colour, shape, etc.)
short, square, yellow,
cotton, etc.
Opinion adjectives go before fact
adjectives.
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a beautiful silk scarf
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How we use adjectives:
When there are two or more adjectives
in a sentence, they go in the following
order:
Fact adjectives
size
small, big, short, long, etc.
weight
heavy, light, etc.
shape
triangular, round, rectangular, square, etc.
Colour
blue, yellow, cream, red, etc.
material
cotton, silk, metal, wooden, silver, plastic, etc.
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An expensive, red, leather suitcase
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Adverbs describe verbs,
other adverbs or
adjectives.
He works hard.
He runs very fast.
She is extremely polite.
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Adverbs usually go after
verbs. They can also go
before verbs (adverbs of
frequency).
She spoke softly.
He always drives carefully.
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How we form adverbs:
•We usually form an adverb by adding –ly to
the adjective.
dangerous – dangerously
• When the adjective ends in –le we drop
the –e and add –y.
gentle – gently
• When the adjective ends in a consonant +
y we drop the –y and add –ily
easy - easily
•When the adjective ends in –l we add –ly.
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wonderful - wonderfully
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But some adverbs have either a
totally different form or the same
form as the adjective:
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adjective
adverb
good
fast
hard
early
late
well
fast
hard
early
late
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