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Adjectives and adverbs are words that describe or modify other words. Adjectives describe nouns by providing details about qualities, characteristics and quantities. There are different types of adjectives including those indicating size, color, number and origin. Adjectives have positive, comparative and superlative forms. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs by providing details about manner, time, place and degree. They indicate how, when, where and to what extent an action occurs. Both adjectives and adverbs add important details to sentences.

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Adj Adv Notes

Adjectives and adverbs are words that describe or modify other words. Adjectives describe nouns by providing details about qualities, characteristics and quantities. There are different types of adjectives including those indicating size, color, number and origin. Adjectives have positive, comparative and superlative forms. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives and other adverbs by providing details about manner, time, place and degree. They indicate how, when, where and to what extent an action occurs. Both adjectives and adverbs add important details to sentences.

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Adjective

An adjectives are words that describes or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
They tells us more about a noun.
They usually appears before the noun it describes.
Sometimes, though, the adjective appears after the noun, later in the sentence.

a smart car an old house a deep water a large blanket

Kinds of Adjectives
There are different kinds of adjectives. Some adjectives describe the qualities of nouns.

a cold drink a fierce boy

 Some adjectives tell us which place or country a person or thing comes from, or
belongs to. They are called adjectives of origin.
a Mexican hat a Japanese garden

 Some adjectives tell us the color of things.


white paint blue sky green apples
 Some adjectives tell us the size of the nouns they describe.

a huge balloon a thin boy a short boy a long bridge

 Numbers are adjectives, too. They tell us how many people, animals, or things there are.
Sometimes they are called adjectives of quantity.

two princes twelve birds fourteen mice

Other adjectives tell us something about quantity without giving you the exact number.

a lot of papers some students a few bottles

Degrees of Comparison
There are three degrees of comparison  positive degree
 comparative degree, and
 superlative degree
The positive degree is the normal adjective form, the one you probably think of when you
think of an adjective.
You use this form when describing one thing or a group of things.

When you compare two people or things, use the comparative form of the adjective.
Lots of comparative adjectives end in -er
small smaller bright brighter
new newer old older rich richer

Use the superlative form of an adjective to compare three or more nouns. Lots of superlatives
end in -est.

dark darker darkest


thick thicker thickest

You often add the before the superlative form. For example, you say:

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

With some adjectives, you use more to make the comparative form, and most to make the
superlative form.

beautiful more beautiful most beautiful

The comparative and superlative forms of some adjectives are completely different words.

good better best

little less least

Determiners are words such as this, those, my, their, which.


They are special adjectives that are used before nouns
She eats an apple a day.
This is a picture of an cat.
Order of adjectives

1) Opinion  what we are thinking about something. Normally this is our opinion,
attitude or observations. These types of adjectives most times will be
before all other adjectives.
beautiful, boring, stimulating, stupid, delicious, useful, lovely, comfortable

2) Size  Tells us how big or small something is.


big, large, little, short, small, tall, huge, tiny

3) Shape (Weight / Length)  Tells about the shape of something or how long or short it
is. It can also refer to the weight of someone or something.
round, oval, square, circular, boxy, fat, heavy, straight, long, short,

4) Age  Tells us how old someone or something is.


old, young, new, ancient, antique

5) Colour  The colour or the approximate colour of something.


yellow, black, red, white, brown, whitish, blueish

6) Pattern  The pattern or design of something.


striped, spotted, checked, flowery

7) Origin  Tells us where something is from.


British, Italian, eastern, Australian, French

8) Material  What is the thing made of or constructed of?


silver, wooden, silk, paper, synthetic, cotton, woollen
Adverb
An adverb is a word that describes a verb. It tells us about an action, or the way something
is done.
Adverbs are words that modify
 a verb (He drove slowly. — How did he drive?)
The child is sleeping soundly.
It is raining heavily.

 an adjective (He drove a very fast car. — How fast was his car?)

 another adverb (She moved quite slowly down the ladder. — How slowly did
she move?)

As we will see, adverbs often tell when, where, why, or under what conditions something
happens or happened.

 Some adverbs describe the way something is done. They are called adverbs of
manner.

The driver braked suddenly


You have all answered correctly
 Some adverbs describe when something happens. They are called adverbs of time.

Can I do my report later? No, do it now. Sometimes I ride my bike to school.

I will finish my report it tomorrow. It rained last evening.

Some adverbs tell you where something happens. They are called adverbs of place.
They are usually placed after the main verb or after the object:

It’s raining. Let’s go inside. There are trees everywhere


He took the child outside

Adverbs of degree tell us about the intensity or degree of an action, an adjective or another
adverb.
Adverbs of degree are usually placed:
 before the adjective or adverb they are modifying:
The water was extremely cold.
 before the main verb:
She was just leaving. He has almost finished.
Ref:
Learning Basic Grammar
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english4today.com
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