ADJECTIVES OR ADVERB

Carlos aquí te explico la diferencia entre los adjetivos y los adverbios

ADJECTIVES OR ADVERBS

The adverbs and the adjectives in English
Adjectives tell us something about a person or a thing. Adjectives can modify nouns (here: girl) or pronouns (here: she).
Adverbs tell us in what way someone does something. Adverbs can modify verbs (here: drive), adjectives or other adverbs.

	Mandy drives carefully.
She is very careful.	She drives carefully.

Mandy is a careful driver. This sentence is about Mandy, the driver, so use the adjective.

Mandy is a careful girl.

Mandy drives carefully. This sentence is about her way of driving, so use the adverb.

Form

Adjective + -ly

dangerous	dangerously
careful	carefully
nice	nicely
horrible	horribly
easy	easily
electronic	electronically

Irregular forms:

good	well
fast	fast
hard	hard

If the adjective ends in-y, change -y to -i. Then add -ly:

• happy – happily

but:

• shy– shyly

If the adjective ends in-le, the adverb ends in-ly:

• terrible– terribly

If the adjective ends in-e, then add-ly:

• safe– safely

► Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs:

• adjectives ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly
• nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy
• verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply

There is no adverb for an adjective ending in -ly.

Use of adverbs

to modify verbs

The handball team played badly last Saturday.

to modify adjectives

It was an extremely bad match.

to modify adverbs

The handball team played extremely badly last Wednesday.

to modify quantities

There are quite a lot of people here.

to modify sentences

Unfortunately, the flight to Dallas had been cancelled.

Types of adverbs

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