Adjectives vs Adverbs

Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives

Modify nouns or pronouns

Adjectives

They can come before the noun or after the verb "be".

He bought an expensive car. The car is expensive. They live in an old house. The house is old. The creative girl made a painting. She is creative. The tall boy is happy. The young beautiful tall woman is here. I saw an interesting movie.

ADVERBS

Modify verbs, adjective or adverb

Adverb

Most adverbs answer the question "How?".Many of them end with -ly.

She is eating quickly. (modifies a verb) You are terribly wrong. (modifies an adjective) We tried very hard. (modifies an adverb)

Adverbs

In front of main verb

After main verb

In front of adjective or adverb

Peter angrily shouted. The children happily played. The old woman slowly walked.

Peter shouted angrily. The children played happily. The old woman walked slowly.

The car is horribly expensive. Your house is really big. They ran extremely fast.

FROM ADJECTIVE TO ADVERB

Irregular Forms

good - well fast - fast hard - hard long - long

Double Forms

hard - hard / hardly = barely near - near / nearly = almost late - late / lately = recently

Some imporstors -ly adjectives

chillyfriendly holy lonely ugly lovely brotherly manly smelly oily

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