The flowers smell sweetly (and this makes it sound like flowers have noses).The cake tastes nicely (this means the cake can taste something – and last time I checked, cakes don’t have mouths).English learners often make mistakes like this: In all of these sentences, the adjective comes after the verb but it describes what the noun is like. This is when we are talking about a sense verb or a verb of appearance, and they are called predicative adjectives. But, sometimes adjectives come after the noun they modify, and after a verb too. What a friendly dog! The dog behaves in a friendly manner.Ĭhoose your plan The different types of adjectives 1.Instead of using an adverb, we can say in a … manner. For example: friendly, lonely and lovely. We also have some adjectives that don’t have an adverb equivalent. Common words like this are: early, late and daily. We said above that adverbs can be made by adding – ly to the adjective, but not all words that end in – ly are adverbs! Some adjectives also end in -ly, and they have the same form as the adverb.
Some adverbs have the same form as adjective. Irregular adjectives and adverbs in English The exception to this is public, which becomes publicly. Basic changes to basically, classic changes to classically. We see this in words like horrible – horribly, and responsible – responsibly.Īnd if the adjective ends in – ic, add – ally. If the adjective ends in – able, – ible or – le, change the – e to a – y. If the adjective ends with a – y, change the – y to an – i then add – ly: happy becomes happily, easy becomes easily. This works with quite a lot of adjectives with just small changes to the rule: So, serious becomes seriously slow becomes slowly. To form these regular adverbs, we add -ly to the end of adjectives. It’s easy to spot regular adverbs vs adjectives because they end with – ly, like quickly in the example above. This explanation is simple enough – especially for English teachers– but it doesn’t really tell you much in practical terms does it? Because the real question is, how do you know if a certain word should be used as an adjective or an adverb? How do you make adverbs from adjectives? And where do you put them in a sentence? Regular adverbs in English This answers the question, How does he run? We’re going to focus mainly on adverbs that answer the how question, which are adverbs of manner. Adverbs can go in lots of different places in a sentence, but here we can say he runs quickly. They answer questions like when, where and how. Red is a descriptive adjective, and we’re going to focus on these today.Īn adverb usually describes a verb. Adjectives usually go before nouns in English so we say a red car. For example, red is an adjective and car is a noun. They answer questions like what kind or how many. The difference between adjectives and adverbs is fairly easy: An adjective describes a noun.
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