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Adverbs & Adjectives Outline
Content
In this lesson you will learn all about adjectives and adverbs.
Learning Outcomes
• Learn the uses and differences between adjectives and adverbs.
• Learn the forms of adjectives and adverbs.
• Create sentences using adjectives and adverbs.
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Please note
Types of Adverbs
Adverbs can describe many kinds of things
Adverbs of Manner
- Quickly, Kindly
Adverbs of Degree
- Very, Rather
Adverbs of Frequency
- Often, Sometimes
Adverbs of Time
- Now, Today
Adverbs of Place
- Here, Nowhere
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Types of Adverbs
The majority of adverbs consist of an adjective
and the suffix (ending) -ly
-Quick-ly
-Accurate-ly
There are exceptions to this, as seen on the previous slide.
Another heavily used adverb is “well”, being the adverb form of
the adjective “good”
Adverbs can also be in the form of a prepositional phrase.
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Use of Adverbs
Adverbs can be used to modify verbs
- Ana moved towards the door
Ana moved quickly towards the door
- The train stopped before the station
The train stopped suddenly before the station
- Tony read through the contract
Tony read carefully through the contract
- The baby cried for the whole flight.
The baby cried loudly for the whole flight.
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Use of Adverbs
Adverbs can be used to modify adjectives.
- The film seemed short.
The film seemed unusually short.
- I find girls taking selfies annoying
I find girls taking selfies unbearably annoying
- My old job was boring
My old job was tediously boring
- I think babies are cute
I think babies are incredibly cute
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Use of Adverbs
Adverbs can be used to modify other adverbs.
- She performed well
She performed impressively well
- The cat moved quickly
The cat moved surprisingly quickly
- The class went by slowly
The class went by painfully slowly
- The child proceeded cautiously
The child proceeded rather cautiously
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Adjectives
We can use adjectives to modify a noun.
- Jamie was playing with her toy
Jamie was playing with her noisy toy
- She brought her sister and her friend
She brought her sister and her crazy friend
- He was wearing some shoes
He was wearing some fake Michael Jordan shoes
- I want a sandwich
I want a delicious sandwich
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Adjectives
We can use adjectives after a linking verb to
describe a subject.
- Toby is tall
- Toby is the subject
- Is (to be) is the linking verb
- Tall is the adjective
- Rita became impatient.
- The kids appeared overexcited.
- This food tastes horrible!
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Exercises
Writing
Read and identify the adverbs and
adjectives.
Last night was terribly long. Our car broke down in the middle
of a heavy rainstorm, about 5 miles short of where we were
meant to be staying. Luckily a motorist who was passing by,
about 20 minutes later, kindly offered to give us a ride to our,
annoyingly difficult to find, hotel. Upon arriving, the distracted
receptionist gave us a key for our room, which turned out to
be the wrong key! We headed back down the winding staircase
and after five minutes of confusion received the correct key. By
this point it was 2 am, and I was utterly exhausted.
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Exercises
Writing
What adverbs and adjectives did you
identify? What was their function?
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