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Adjectives & Adverbs




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Adjectives or Adverbs

Study the rules:

Adjectives give more information about a noun (names, people, places and things)
Adverbs give� more information about a verb (an action) an adjective (quality) or another adverb (intensity)

Peter writes beautifully�������������������������
Mary is specially careful with children���������
Dr. Zu is a very well known Dentist


Most adverbs are formed from an adjective:

easy (-y) + ily��� �� = easily��������������� complete + ly� = completely������ automatic + ally�� = automatically ��������� horrible (-le) + ly = horribly����� �
happy(-y) + ily���� = happily������������� nice + ly��������� = nicely�������������� romantic� + ally��� = romantically ���������� simple�� (-le) + ly = simply


Some adverbs have the same form as an adjective:
close, daily, early, fast, hard, high, late, right

Adjective������ Susan is fast��� � � ����� (tells the way she is)��� ����� �� She is fast��� ��� fast is an adjective
Adverb��� ����� Susan runs fast��������� (tells the way she runs)�������� She runs fast��� fast is an adverb

Fill the gaps with the appropriate adjective or adverb:

1.��� Laila was playing quiet/quietly
2.��� John speaks very loud/loudly
3.��� Mary is a careful/carefully driver
4.��� She gave us a quick/quickly answer
5.��� Patrick was pleased and started to speak happy/happily
6.��� I can�t believe it! It started to snow heavy/heavily.
7.��� We were lucky/luckily to sell our apartment
8.��� I like her voice. It is so beautiful/ beautifully
9.��� After the accident I started to drive slow/slowly
10.�� The test wasn't easy/easily and we finished in the nick of the time


Good & Well

Adjective - Good
Adverb - Well
Martin is a good guitar player
His English is very good
Mario is a good painter
he plays the guitar well
He Speaks English very well
Mario paints well�

Fill in the gaps with good and well where appropriate.

1.�� Peter is adriver, he drives.�

2.�� Martha cooks very . She is acook.

3.�� Mr. Jones isn't ateacher. He doesn't teach.

4.�� Do you think Celine Dion is a singer? Does she sing.

5.�� Ronaldo was asoccer player. He used to play very.