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    Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to describe how, when, where, or to what extent an action occurs. They are typically formed by adding -ly to adjectives. Some common adverb forms are dangerously, carefully, nicely, horribly, easily. Adverbs are used to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, quantities, and entire sentences. Special verbs like look, smell, and taste can take both adjectives and adverbs, with the adverb describing ability and the adjective describing a state or condition.

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    Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to describe how, when, where, or to what extent an action occurs. They are typically formed by adding -ly to adjectives. Some common adverb forms are dangerously, carefully, nicely, horribly, easily. Adverbs are used to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, quantities, and entire sentences. Special verbs like look, smell, and taste can take both adjectives and adverbs, with the adverb describing ability and the adjective describing a state or condition.

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    Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to describe how, when, where, or to what extent an action occurs. They are typically formed by adding -ly to adjectives. Some common adverb forms are dangerously, carefully, nicely, horribly, easily. Adverbs are used to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, quantities, and entire sentences. Special verbs like look, smell, and taste can take both adjectives and adverbs, with the adverb describing ability and the adjective describing a state or condition.

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    ADVEBRS

    Adverbs tell us in what way someone does something. Adverbs can modify verbs (here: drive),
    adjectives or other adverbs.

    adjective adverb

    Mandy is
    Mandy drives carefully.
    a careful girl.

    She is
    She drives carefully.
    very careful.

    2. Form

    Adjective + -ly Irregular forms:

    adjective adverb adjective adverb

    dangerous dangerously good well

    careful carefully fast fast

    nice nicely hard hard

    horrible horribly

    easy easily

    electronic electronically
    If the adjective ends in -y, change -y to -i. Then add -ly:

     happy – happily

    but:

     shy – shyly

    If the adjective ends in -le, the adverb ends in -ly:

     terrible – terribly

    If the adjective ends in -e, then add -ly:

     safe – safely

    ► Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs:

     adjectives ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly

     nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy

     verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply

    There is no adverb for an adjective ending in -ly.


    4. Use of adverbs

    to modify to modify to modify to modify to modify


    verbs adjectives adverbs quantities sentences

    The handball It was The handball There Unfortunately, t


    team played an extremely bad team are quite a lot he flight to
    badly last match. played extremel of people here. Dallas had been
    Saturday. y badly last cancelled.
    Wednesday.

    5. Adjective or Adverb after special verbs

    Both adjectives and adverbs may be used after look, smell and taste. Mind the change in
    meaning.

    Here are two examples:

    adjective adverb

    The pizza tastes good. Jamie Oliver can taste well.


    (How is the pizza?) (How can Jamie Oliver taste?)

    Peter's feet smell bad. Peter can smell badly.


    (How are his feet?) (How can Peter smell?)

    Do not get confused with good/well.

     Linda looks good. (What type of person is she?)

     Linda looks well. (How is Linda? – She may have been ill, but now she is fit again.)

     How are you? – I'm fine, thank you. /I'm good. (emotional state)

     How are you? – I'm well, thank you. (physical state)

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