ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
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This document provides definitions and examples of adjectives and adverbs. It states that adjectives modify nouns and pronouns by describing attributes like kind, which one, or how many. Adverbs modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, and other adverbs by describing manner, place, time, degree, or number. The document categorizes adverbs into simple, interrogative, and negative types and provides examples of each. It concludes with a list of common adverbs to know.
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
- 1. ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS RULES TO FOLLOW
- 2. ADJECTIVES • Modifies Nouns • Modifies Pronouns
- 3. DEFINITION OF AN ADJECTIVE: • It tells what kind of person, place, or thing. A noun or a pronoun is. • It may also point out which one or how many.
- 4. EXAMPLES: • The ship was an English vessel. (what kind) • This factory is mine. (which one) • Many people enjoy the annual dinner. (how many, which one)
- 5. AN ADVERB: • Modifies an active verb or a verb phrase by expressing manner, place, time, degree, or number.
- 6. TYPES OF ADVERBS: • Simple • Interrogative • Negative
- 7. EXAMPLES: • SIMPLE: – She moved quietly. (Manner and tell how) – I waited there for an hour. (Place and tell where) – You may leave soon. (Time, tells when) – I called you once. (Number, tells how many) – He sat very still. (Degree, tells how much)
- 8. Interrogative Adverb • Introduces a sentence that asks a question • where, when, why and how
- 9. EXAMPLES: • Interrogative: – When will you return? – How is the trunk being sent?
- 10. Negative Adverb • Denies or contradicts a statement • no, not , never, only, scarcely and hardly Note: two negative adverbs should not be used together.
- 11. EXAMPLES: • Negative • - I can scarcely believe my eyes. ( correct) • - I haven’t no more sea shells. (incorrect)
- 12. Familiar Adverbs to Know • almost finally seldom unusually certainly hardly quite so usually just rather very rather fairly nearly too scarcely well