ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
Adjectives
Adjectives are one of the
four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Examples of
adjectives are: big, small, blue, old, rich and nice. They give us more
information about people, animals or things represented by nouns and pronouns.
Adjectives fall into two categories: descriptive and limiting.
Descriptive adjectives
are those which describe the colour, size, or quality of a person or a thing
while limiting adjectives place restrictions on the words they modify
(quantity, distance, possession, etc.)
Descriptive
|
Limiting
|
Beautiful
|
Cardinal
numbers (one, two)
|
Expensive
|
Ordinal
numbers (first, second)
|
Interesting
|
Possesives
(my, your, his, her, its)
|
Big
|
Demonstratives
(this, that, these, those)
|
Delicious
|
Quantity (few,
many, much)
|
Important
|
Articles (a,
an, the)
|
Examples of adjectives:
- The dress is expensive
- That bag is different from the rest of the bag
- His phone is similar to mine
- I am disappointed of you
- That man is very cruel
- I am hungry
Adverbs
Adverbs modify verbs,
adjectives, or other adverbs. Many descriptive adjectives can be changed to
adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective base.
Adjectives
|
Adverbs
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Loud
|
Loudly
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Elegant
|
Elegantly
|
Slow
|
Slowly
|
Terrible
|
Terribly
|
Adjectives With Linking
Verbs
A special category of
verbs connects or links the subject with the subject complement. Unlike most
verbs, these do not show action. They must be modified by adjectives, not
adverbs.
Verbs that can be linked
to adjectives are:
- Be
- Become
- Remain
- Stay
- Appear
- Seem
- Sound
- Feel
- Look
- Smell
- Taste
Example:
- Utie feels bad for mocking Iyan
- Louis becomes tired after running for 1 hour
- Julia looks beautiful in that dress
- They were sorry for cancelling the concert
- The pizza tastes good
- Jimmy looks at his dog happily
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