ADJECTIVES AND

ADVERBS
Eugenia Ida Edward
UB00102 Communicative English Grammar
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Adjectives
To describe nouns (people,
places or things)
They are safe streets.
The streets are safe.

Safe tells you more about

the streets.
Adverbs
To describe: verbs, adjectives,
other adverbs.
Verbs: The manager talks
quietly.
Adjectives: Hes extremely
quiet.
Other adverbs: He works very
quietly.
Word Order
An adjective usually goes
right before the noun it
describes.
This is a small house.
It can also go after a non-

action verb such as be, look,

seem, appear, smell or taste.
This house looks small.
 Word Order
An adverb usually goes after the verb it
describes.
The apartment rented quickly.
BE CAREFUL! Do NOT put an adverb between
the verb and the object.
She decorated the house beautifully.
NOT: She decorated beautifully the house.
An adverb usually goes right before the
adjective or adverb it describes.
Its an extremely nice house.
They found it very quickly.
 Adverbs of Manner
To describe more information about action
verbs.
They decorated the apartment beautifully!
They rented it quickly.

Forms most adverbs of manner by adding

ly to the adjective: adjective + -ly= adverb
We need a quick decision.
You should decide quickly.
Adverbs of Manner
Some adverbs of manner also have a
form without ly (the same as the
adjective). The form without ly is more
informal.
Dont speak so loudly.
Dont speak
MORE so loud. MORE INFORMAL
FORMAL

SLOWLY SLOW

QUICKLY QUICK

LOUDLY LOUD

CLEARLY CLEAR
 Adverbs of Manner
BE CAREFUL! Some adjectives also end in ly
for example friendly, lonely, lovely and silly.
Its a lovely apartment.

Some common adverbs of manner are NOT

formed by adding ly to adjectives:
The adverb form of good is well.
Hes a good driver./ He drives well.
Early, fast, hard, late and wrong have
the same adjective and adverb forms.
She is a hard worker. She works hard.
Adverbs of manner
BE CARERFUL! Hardly is not the
adverb form of hard. Hardly means
almost not. Lately is not the
adverb form of late. Lately means
recently.
Theres hardly enough room for a
bed.
theres almost not enough room
for a bed.
We havent seen any nice houses
Use degree adverbs to make
adjectives and other adverbs
stronger to weaker.
absolutely awfully really pretty fairly not
at all
completely terribly so;very quite
100%
0%

Awfully and terribly can describe

something good or bad.
The landlord was awfully rude.
The apartment was awfully nice.
 Degree Adverbs
Not at all means totally not
I didnt like the apartment at all.
I totally didnt like it.
Word order for NOT AT ALL.

After a verb/ verb + object

They didnt decorate the place at all.
After or before an adjective or another

adverb
It wasnt nice at all./ it wasnt at all
nice.
Participial adjectives

It is adjectives that end with

ing or ed. They come from
verbs.
The story amazes me.
Its an amazing story./ Im
 Participial Adjectives
It often describes feelings.
Use the ing form for someone or
something that causes the
feeling.
The fly is disgusting. (The fly
causes the feeling.)
Use the ed form for the person
who has the feeling.
Im disgusted. (I have the
Word Order: Adjectives before Nouns

1.Its in a charming old residential

neighborhood.
2.I bought a nice black leather
couch.
 Word Order: Adjectives before Nouns

This only happens when adjectives to

describe the nouns are too long.
We follow the order based on the previous

chart shown.
EXCEPTION: Size adjectives (such as big

and small) often go first in a series of

adjectives.
Its a small affordable one-room

apartment.
Its an affordable small one-room

apartment.
 Word Order: Adjectives before Nouns

We do not use COMMAS between

adjectives that belong to different
categories.
I got large round Mexican mirror.

For adjectives that belong to the same

category, the order is not important.
Use commas to separate these
adjectives.
Shes a friendly, helpful, nice woman.