Adverbs adjectives

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Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives 

An adjective describes something or somebody.

Adam is a good singer.

Frank has got a red car.

Adverbs 

Adverbs can describe other words. It answers the question How something is done.

Adverbs can describe:

VERBS

1. Frank sings beautifully 

2. My brother drives carefully. 

An adverb can describe: 

 AN ADJECTIVE

1. Frank is an extremely good singer.

2. My brother is an awfully careful driver.

3. It's an absolutely perfect video clip.

An adverb can describe:

ANOTHER ADVERB

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed extremely perfectly. 

How are adverbs made

Most adverbs are made by putting -ly after the adjective     

Beautiful - beautifully

Sometimes the spelling is changed. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

Exceptions adverbs

good            well​

fast               fast​

hard             hard​

long              long​

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Pay attention! After the verbs: to be, to smell, to taste, to look, to feel ,to sound, to seem you get an adjective.​

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That music sounds good.​

Max is a ... singer.

1. Good
2. Well

You can ... open the box.

1. Easy
2. Easily
3. Easyly

He drives the car ...

1. Carefully
2. Careful

Jamie Oliver cooks ...

1. Fantastic
2. Fantasticly
3. Fantastically

This hamburger tastes ...

1. Awful
2. Awfully

Madonna is a ... singer.

1. Terribly
2. Terrible

That pizza smells ...

1. Nicely
2. Nice