The document provides examples of different types of adjectives and adverbs and exercises to work with them. It begins by defining adjectives that modify nouns and examples. It then defines adverbs formed with "-ly" and some irregular forms. It discusses using adverbs like "incredibly" to modify adjectives and adverbs. The exercises that follow have learners identify and fill in adjectives and adverbs in sentences.
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Adjvectives and adverbs
1.
2. • Words that describe or modify another person or
thing in the sentence
3. • The NEW secretary doesn’t like
me.
• He’s going out with a RICH
businessman.
Adjective
+ noun
• I’ll GET THE CAR READY.
• Do I MAKE YOU HAPPY?
Verb +
object +
noun
• I’m PATIENT.
• He gets CONFUSED sometimes.
• I feel SAFE with you.
Be, feel,
get +
adjective
4.
5. Exercise 1: Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.
1. A beautiful table (wooden/round) a beautiful ROUND WOODEN table.
2. An unusual ring ( gold) ________________
3. An old house (beautiful) _____________________
4. Black gloves (leather) ________________________
5. An American film (old) ________________________
6. A long face (thin) ____________________
7. Big clouds (black) _____________________
8. A sunny day (lovely) _______________________
9. An ugly dress (yellow) _____________________
10.A wide avenue (long) ______________________
11.A lovely restaurant (little) _____________________
12.A new sweater (green/ nice) __________________
13.A red car (old/ little) ____________________
14.A metal box (black/ small) ____________________
15.A big cat (fat/ black) ________________________
16.Long hair (black/ beautiful) __________________
17.An old painting (interesting/ French) ________________
18.An enourmous umbrella (red/ yellow) _________________
6.
7. • Those who always end
in –ly. Patiently,
carefully, badly, slowly,
etc.
• He doesn’t drives
CAREFULLY.
• There are only four
irregular adverbs: Good-
well, late-late, fast-fast,
and hard- hard.
• He drives very fast. (not
fastly)
8. To make some adjectives or adverbs stronger, we use
INCREDIBLY, EXTREMELY, VERY, REALLY, SO, PRETTY, and
FAIRLY. For example;
•She’s incredibly talented.
•She’s extremely generous.
•He’s a pretty cool guy
•We get along really well
And we use, COMPLETELY and TOTALLY to say 100% sure.
•He’s completely honest
•She’s totally reliable.
9. Exercise 2. Put the correct word.
1. Two people were seriously injured in the accident. (serious/
seriously).
2. The driver of the car had _________ injuries. (serious/ seriously)
3. I think you behaved very _________. (selfish/ selfishly)
4. Tania is _________ uspet about losing her job (terrible/terribly)
5. There was a _______ change of weather. (sudden/ suddenly)
6. Everybody at the carnival was _________ dressed. ( colorful/
colorfully)
7. Linda usually wears ______________clothes. (colorful/ colorfully)
8. Liz fell and hurt herself really _____________. (bad/ badly)
9. Joe says he didn’t do well at school because he was_________
taught (bad/ badly)
10.Don’t go up that ladder. It doesn’t look ______________.
(safe/safely).
10. Exercise 3. Complete each sentence using one of the words given sometimes
you need the adjective and sometimes the adverb.
Careful complete continuous financial
fluent happy nervous perfect
quick special
1. Our holiday was too short. The time passed very __________________.
2. Steve doesn’t take risks when he’s driving. He’s always________________.
3. Sue works_____________. She never seems to stop.
4. Rachel and Patrick are very ______________ married.
5. Maria’s English is very ____________ although she makes quite a lot of
mistakes.
6. I cooked this meal ___________ for you, so I hope you like it.
7. Everything was very quiet. There was ____________ silence.
8. I tried on the shoes and they fitted me ______________.
9. Do you usually feel ____________ before exams?
10.I’d like to buy a car, but it’s ______________ impossible for me at the moment.