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English Grammar - Adjectives & Adverbs

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When to useWhen to use

• We useWe use

adverbs of manner adverbs of manner to describe how to describe how something happens.something happens.

“ “He eats very He eats very happilyhappily.”.”

“ “John writes John writes quicklyquickly.”.”

“ “Old people usually drive Old people usually drive slowlyslowly.”.”

• We usually form adverbs of manner by We usually form adverbs of manner by adding adding –ly –ly to the adjective.to the adjective.

bad– badbad– badlyly

careful – carefulcareful – carefullyly

bright – brightbright – brightlyly

loud – loudloud – loudlyly

polite – politepolite – politelyly

quick – quickquick – quicklyly

slow - slowslow - slowlyly

• If the adjective ends in If the adjective ends in le le , , take offtake off the the –e–e..

gentle – gentgentle – gentlyly

simple – simpsimple – simplyly

terrible – terribterrible – terriblyly

• If the adjective ends in If the adjective ends in –y–y, we usually , we usually change the change the –y–y to to –ily–ily..

angry – angrangry – angrilyily

easy – easeasy – easilyily happy – happhappy – happilyily

heavily – heavheavily – heavilyily noisy – nosnoisy – nosilyily busy – busbusy – busilyily

shy - shyshy - shylyly

• If the adjectives ends in –ic, we add –ally.

dramatic – dramatically

tragic – tragically

• Some Some adjectivesadjectives end in end in –ly –ly :: friendly, lonely, lovely, silly, ugly, deadly, lively …friendly, lonely, lovely, silly, ugly, deadly, lively …

We don’t add We don’t add –ly –ly to make the adverb. We to make the adverb. We useuse:: in a ... way / manner in a ... way / manner

““He was talking He was talking in a silly way.”in a silly way.”

““They dancedThey danced in a lively manner.” in a lively manner.”

Some adverbs are the same as the adjectives:

early

fast

hard

high

late

low

right

wrong

Well: Well: adjadj vs vs advadv

• wellwell is the adverb from is the adverb from goodgood “ “Sleep Sleep wellwell.”.”

“ “He plays footballHe plays football well well.”.”

• well well can also be an can also be an adjectiveadjective. It means . It means healthyhealthy..

“ “My teacher was not at school today. He is not My teacher was not at school today. He is not welwell.”l.”

• When a sentence consists of

verb + preposition + object

we can put the adverb before the preposition or after the object.

“She listened to me carefully.”

“She listened carefully to me.”

• When we use a passive form, the adverb goes before the past participle.

“He was badly injured.”

“The CD was slightly damaged in the post but still worked.”