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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.”
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