ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS

ADJECTIVES

We use adjectives to say more about a noun or a pronoun.

They go before a noun or a pronoun.

Adjectives have no plural forms.

Adjectives go AFTER (not BEFORE)

APPEAR, BE, BECOME, FEEL, GET, LOOK, SEEM, SMELL, SOUND, TASTE

You look tired.

That seems easy.

Some –LY adjectives have no adverbs: FRIENDLY, LIVELY; LOVELY; LONELY; SILLY.

in a friendly, silly, lovely … way

SPELLING CHANGES

-le changes to –ly terrible / terribly-y changes to –ily happy /happily-ic changes to –ically

automatic / automatically-ue changes to –uly true / truly-ll changes to –lly full / fully

ADVERBS

We use adverbs to say more about a verb (adverb after a verb / adverb before an adjective / adverb before another adverb.)

Adverbs tell you how, when, where or how much something happens.

They usually go at the end of a sentence.

Never between the verbs and its object

We form most adverbs by adding –LY to the adjective.

Irregular: GOOD – WELL; HARD – HARD; LATE – LATE

ADJECTIVES and ADVERBS

EARLY, LATE, HARD, LOUD, FAST, DAILY, HIGH, LOW, RIGHT, WRONG, WEEKLY, MONTHLY can be adjectives and adverbs.

I always catch the early train.

We got up early.

Complete the sentences by choosing between the words given in brackets. (1)

The train was very ___________ (slow / slowly) and we arrived late.

My cousin speaks English and German (fluent / fluently). You look __________ (angry / angrily). What’s wrong? Don’t drive so __________ (fast / fastly). She read the message _________ (quick / quickly) He’s a __________ (good / well) guitar player. We saw lots of ___________ (beautiful / beautifully)

paintings at the museum. John and Mary work __________ (hard / hardly)

Complete the sentences by choosing between the words given in brackets. (2)

The whole team played very __________ (bad / badly) and they lost.

National Geography is a ___________ (monthly magazine / magazine monthly)

I’m very tired because I slept ____________ (bad / badly) last night.

Can you speak ___________ (slow / slowly), please? She’s singing a very ___________ (nice / nicely) song. I’m not a __________ (good / well) football player. I

don’t play football very ___________ (good / well). I’m afraid I sing very ___________ (bad / badly)