Adjectives

An adjective is a word that tells us more about a noun. (By "noun" we include pronouns and noun phrases.) An adjective "qualifies" or "modifies" a noun (a big dog). Adjectives can be used before a noun (I like Chinese food) or after certain verbs (It is hard). We can often use two or more adjectives together (a beautiful young French lady).

What is an Adverb?
An adverb is a word that tells us more about a verb. It "qualifies" or "modifies" a verb (The man ran quickly). In the following examples, the adverb is in bold and the verb that it modifies is in italics. y John speaks loudly. (How does John speak?) y Afterwards she smoked a cigarette. (When did she smoke?) y Mary lives locally. (Where does Mary live?) But adverbs can also modify adjectives (Tara is really beautiful), or even other adverbs (It works very well). Look at these examples: y Modify an adjective: - He is really handsome. (How handsome is he?) - That was extremely kind of you. y Modify another adverb: - She drives incredibly slowly. (How slowly does she drive?)

Adverb Form
We make many adverbs by adding -ly to an adjective, for example: y quick (adjective) > quickly (adverb) y careful (adjective) > carefully (adverb) y beautiful (adjective) > beautifully (adverb) There are some basic rules about spelling for -ly adverbs. See the table below: Adjective ending most adjectives do this add -ly adjective quick nice sole careful regrettable horrible happy economic adverb quickly nicely solely carefully regrettably horribly happily economically

-able or -ible

change -e to -y

-y -ic

change -y to -ily change -ic to -ically

And some adverbs have no particular form. Look at these examples: y well, fast, very, never, always, often, still Tip: 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 adverb for an andjective ending in -ly.

The following adjectives and adverbs have the same form: Adjective close daily early fair far fast free hard high late lively long lovely low right wide wrong These adverbs have two forms: without -ly fair free high late most near pretty right wrong with -ly fairly freely highly lately mostly nearly prettily rightly wrongly Adverb close daily early fair far fast free hard high late lively long lovely low right wide wrong