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Adjectives and adverbs

I) ADJECTIVES

Adjectives are describing words. They tell you more about nouns.

a young boy          a nice girl        

 This mouse is small.     My dog is brown.

II) ADVERBS

Adverbs are words that modify a verb.   (ad-verb; ad: near)

Adverbs often answer three questions :    How?      When?     Where?

    Tom drives slowly.      We know 'how' he drives.     (drive:verb)

     It rained yesterday.      We know 'when' it rained.    (rain: verb)

  Jim is falling downstairs.   We know 'where' he is falling.   (fall: verb)

Adverbs can also modify an adjective or another adverb:

   It is too cold!   (cold: adj)         
    He speaks very quickly.  (quickly: adv)

ADVERBS ending with the suffix -ly

----  Adverbs are often formed by adding ly to an adjective:

slow => slowly    //    beautiful => beautifully

  Tom has a slow car   (adj)      so he drives slowly.   (adv)

        This bird is beautiful and it sings beautifully.

adjective                         adverb

nice    nicely

serious                             seriously

careful                              carefully

loud   loudly

quick   quickly

easy   easily              change y to i and add -ly

happy   happily     

terrible                             terribly             drop 'le' before adding 'ly'

horrible                            horribly  

terrific                             terrifically            for adjectives ending in 'ic' add 'ally'

economic                        economically

due  duly                        silent 'e' is dropped in 'true'   'due ' 

- - - - - - -                          - - - - - -

 tip:  not all words ending in -ly are used as adverbs:

           friendly, kindly and lonely are adjectives as well.                    

----there are some important exceptions :

adjective                          adverb

fast   fast

early  early

low   low                  that plane's flying too low

hard   hard          'hardly' is not the abverb from hard, it means 'not much'

                                                          He can hardly walk.

late   late               'lately' is not the adverb from late, it means 'recently'

  have you been doing anything interesting lately

good                              well               The adverb form of good is "well".

                                                         Youki is a good dog.   /   Sarah is a good student.

                                                         I do not feel very well.  /   Sarah is doing well at college.

---- do not use 'very' with adjectives like excellent, extremely, fantastic

(if something is excellent or perfect there is nothing better, so you can't say very excellent or very perfect).

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