RULES OF HOW

TO FORM
ADEJCTIVES
AND ADVERBS
-Brittany Mayorga.
-Emily López
WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?

An adjective is a word that adds a description to the noun. An adjective can

describe a person, animal, place, thing or tell the number or quantity of the noun
.
For example:

• They live in a beautiful house.

• Ben is an adorable baby.
• This glass is breakable.
 HOW CAN YOU FORM AN ADJECTIVE?
In English, We can use suffixes and prefixes to change nouns and verbs into adjectives, or to change
the meaning of an adjective. Some suffixes have a general meaning whilst others simply transform
words into adjectives.
The suffix -less usually means without something whilst the suffix -ful usually means to have something.
01
For example: hopeful ← hope → hopeless 

02 Also Not all words can be made into adjectives pairs like this .

For example: homeless (but not: homefull) beautiful (but not: beautyless)

03 The suffix -ish changes nouns and adjectives into adjectives that mean like something

Don’t be childish. (like a child)

The jacket is a bluish colour. (like blue)
HOW CAN YOU FORM AN ADJECTIVE? 04
For materials we can add -en to nouns to create adjectives that mean made of:

For example A wooden chair. A woolen jumper

05 When added to a verb, -able creates adjectives that express ability

For example: Is the water drinkable?

06
We use adjectives that end in -ing to describe the effect of a noun. In the case, the -ing adjective can also be
rewritten as a verb
Erica’s job is boring.
We use adjectives that end in -ed to describe how a person feels. In this case, the verb be an be 07
replaced by a linking verb
Erica is bored with her job
 WHAT IS AN ADVERB?
An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb, an adjective, another adverb or even a whole
sentence.

For example:
• He drives very fast.
• They swim well.
• He recently bought an expensive diamond necklace
• The championship league is held annually.
HOW CAN YOU FORM AN ADVERB?
In English, the basic rule is that -ly is added to the end of the adjective: 01
For example
Quick – quickly : I get dressed quickly.
Cheap- cheaply : You can live very cheaply in Italy.

02 If the adjective ends in '-y', replace the 'y' with 'i' and add '-ly':

For example:
Easy – easily : I solved the exam easily
Happy – happily : He smiled happily at me.

03 If the adjective ends in -'able', '-ible', or '-le', replace the '-e' with '-y':

For example:
Probable – probably : It will probably rain tomorrow
Gentle – gently : my mom always tells my brother to gently brush the dog
 HOW CAN YOU FORM AN ADVERB?
04 If the adjective ends in '-ic', add '-ally':
For example
Basic – basically : She started basically a vegan diet.
Tragic – tragicly : They died tragicly.

05 There are other adverbs that do not end with "-ly" and that are written
the same as adjectives.
For example:
Hard → Hard : He is fighting hard to keep his job.
Fast → Fast : He drives very fast.

06 There are other adverbs that do not end with "-ly", but they are not written the same as
adjectives, in fact they change completely.
For example:
Good- well : I work very well late at night.
 NOTE :
• If modify the verb: it is
placed after the verb. Ana wake up early this morning.
• If modify an adjective: it
is placed before the He runs really fast.
adjective.
• If modify another
adverb: it is placed Susan drives extremely slow.
before the main adverb
 Exercises – Adjectives
comfortable golden daily

01 My mom likes my couch.

Answer: My mom likes my comfortable couch.

02 She wears a bracelet.

Answer: She wears a golden bracelet.

03 Anna goes for a run.

Anna goes for a daily run.
 Exercises – Adverbs
Truthfully loudly

01 She answered the police officer's questions.

Answer: She truthfully answered the police officer's questions

02 Alex sings  in the shower.

Answer: Phillip sings loudly in the shower.
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