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Adverbs &
Adjectives
Giving Details
Grammar & Structure
Level B1

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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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Types of Adverbs

Please note

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

Please note
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

Please note

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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Exercises

Writing
Write three sentences using adverbs to
modify verbs

EX) I ran quickly to answer the phone.

1) ___________________________
2) ___________________________
3) ____________________________

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Use of Adverbs

Please note

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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Exercises

Writing
Write three sentences using adverbs to
modify adjectives

EX) That movie was ridiculously funny!

1) ___________________________
2) ___________________________
3) ____________________________

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Use of Adverbs

Please note

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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Exercises

Writing
Write three sentences using adverbs to
modify other adverbs

EX) She danced very gracefully like a swan.

1) ___________________________
2) ___________________________
3) ____________________________

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Grammar

Please note
Many adverbs can be used by adding –ly but
not all.
Examples: Irregular:
- Dangerous - Good
Dangerously Well
- Nice - Hard
Nicely Hard
- Easy
Easily
- Careful
Carefully

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Exercises

Writing

Create adverbs from these adjectives

1) Horrible

2) Patient

3) Crazy

4) Smooth

5) Open

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Grammar

Please note

Not all words that end in –ly are adjectives!

Which of the following are not adverbs?

- Playfully
- Friendly
- Really
- Ugly
- Lonely
- Poorly
- Silly
- Bitterly
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Adjectives

Please note

On the previous slide, we identified the following words

as not being adverbs.

- Friendly
- Ugly
- Lonely
- Silly

These are adjectives and they perform different functions to adverbs.

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Adjectives

Please note

Adjectives have several possible endings.

Including...
“-ive” “-ous” “-y” “-ent” “-ful”

- Attractive
- Envious
- Religious
- Noisy
- Fluent
- Bashful

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Adjectives

Please note

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

Please note
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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Exercises

Writing
Look at the image. Write three sentences
using adverbs.

1) ______________

2) ______________

3) ______________

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Exercises

Writing
Look at the image. Write three sentences
using adjectives.

1) ______________

2) ______________

3) ______________

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Exercises

Writing

Write sentences using these adjectives

1) ______________
- Hot
- Slow
2) ______________ - Easy
- Fun
- Relaxing
3) ______________ - Crazy
- Young

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Exercises

Writing

Write sentences using these adverbs

1) ______________ - Fast
- Well
- Painfully
2) ______________ - Incredibly
- Kindly
3) ______________ - Strangely
- Incorrectly

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