10-1 Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjectives describe nouns:

Some adjectives look like verbs. Many English adjectives end in ing or ed. You will study the difference between adjectives like confusing and confused in the 120 level:

Adjectives can go before the nouns they describe:

Also, we can use adjectives after the following verbs:

Adjectives describe how somebody or something looks, tastes, sounds, etc.. They describe nouns.

We use adverbs mainly to describe how somebody does something or how something happens. This means we use adverbs mainly to describe verbs:

To make an adverb, we usually add ly to the adjective:

Adjectives that end in y usually change to ily in the adverb form:

There are also a few irregular adverbs in English. For fast, late, and hard, the adjective and adverb forms are the same. The adverb form of good is well:

Adverbs that describe how something is done or how something happens usually come after the verb:

But remember, we use adjectives, not adverbs, when we describe nouns with be, become, get, seem, look, sound, taste, smell, and feel: