Saturday, April 1, 2017

Adjectives and Adverbs


Adjectives such as beautiful, nice, and red describe nouns. Adverbs such as quickly, badly, or warmly describe verbs. This page will explain the differences between them, and show you how to make adverbs from adjectives.

1. Using adjectives and adverbs

AdjectiveAdverbExample
beautiful Ann is beautiful.
 beautifullyAnn sings beautifully.
warm The room is warm.
 warmlyJoe smiles warmly.
slow The car is slow.
 slowlyAnn drives slowly.

2. Making adverbs from adjectives

Adverbs are usually made from adjectives by adding -LY. These are the rules:
Adjective ending in...How to make the adverbExamples
yChange Y to I and add -LYheavy - heavily
happy - happily
lazy - lazily
[anything else]Just add -LYwarm - warmly
nice - nicely
loud - loudly
There are some important exceptions:
AdjectiveAdverb
goodwell
latelate
(“Lately” means recently.
It is not the adverb
from “late”.)
earlyearly
fastfast
hardhard
(“Hardly” means not much.
It is not the adverb
from “hard”.)




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