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Adjective and Adverb

The document discusses the definitions and types of adjectives and adverbs in English grammar. It explains that adjectives describe nouns and provide details about qualities and characteristics, and they usually precede the nouns they modify. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs and often end in "-ly", and they can provide details about manner, time, place, degree, and frequency. The document also categorizes different types of adjectives and adverbs based on what part of speech they modify and the details they provide.

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Adjective and Adverb

The document discusses the definitions and types of adjectives and adverbs in English grammar. It explains that adjectives describe nouns and provide details about qualities and characteristics, and they usually precede the nouns they modify. Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs and often end in "-ly", and they can provide details about manner, time, place, degree, and frequency. The document also categorizes different types of adjectives and adverbs based on what part of speech they modify and the details they provide.

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Adjective
An adjective describes or modifies noun/s and pronoun/s in a sentence. It normally indicates
quality, size, shape, duration, feelings, contents, and more about a noun or pronoun.
Adjectives usually provide relevant information about the nouns/pronouns they modify/describe
by answering the questions: What kind? How many? Which one? How much? Adjectives enrich
your writing by adding precision and originality to it.

Example:
o The team has a dangerous batsman. (What kind?)
o I have ten candies in my pocket. (How many?)
o I loved that red car. (Which one?)
o I earn more money than he does. (How much?)

Position of Adjevtive

Unlike Adverbs, which often seem capable of popping up almost anywhere in a sentence,


adjectives nearly always appear immediately before the noun or noun phrase that they modify.
Sometimes they appear in a string of adjectives, and when they do, they appear in a set order
according to category. (See Below.) When indefinite pronouns — such as something, someone,
anybody — are modified by an adjective, the adjective comes after the pronoun:

Anyone capable of doing something horrible to someone nice should be punished.


Something wicked this way comes.

And there are certain adjectives that, in combination with certain words, are always
"postpositive" (coming after the thing they modify):

The president elect, heir apparent to the Glitzy fortune, lives in New York proper.

See, also, the note on a- adjectives, below, for the position of such words as "ablaze, aloof,
aghast."

Types of Adjective
Depending on the language, an adjective can precede a corresponding noun on a prepositive basis
or it can follow a corresponding noun on a postpositive basis. Structural, contextual, and style
considerations can impinge on the pre-or post-position of an adjective in a given instance of its
occurrence. In English, occurrences of adjectives generally can be classified into one of three
categories:
1. Prepositive adjectives, which are also known as "attributive adjectives," occur on an
antecedent basis within a noun phrase.[6] For example: "I put my happy  kids into the car,"
wherein happy occurs on an antecedent basis within the my happy kids noun phrase, and
therefore functions in a prepositive adjective.
2. Postpositive adjectives can occur: (a) immediately subsequent to a noun within a noun
phrase, e.g. "I took a short drive around with my happy kids;" (b) as linked via
a copula or other linking mechanism subsequent to a corresponding noun or pronoun; for
example: "My kids are happy," wherein happy is a predicate adjective[7] (see
also: Predicative expression, Subject complement); or (c) as an appositive
adjective[8] within a noun phrase, e.g. "My kids, [who are] happy to go cruising, are in
the back seat."
3. Nominalized adjectives, which function as nouns. One way this happens is by eliding a
noun from an adjective-noun noun phrase, whose remnant thus is a nominalization. In
the sentence, "I read two books to them; he preferred the sad book, but she preferred the
happy", happy is a nominalized adjective, short for "happy one" or "happy book".
Another way this happens is in phrases like "out with the old, in with the new", where
"the old" means "that which is old" or "all that is old", and similarly with "the new". In
such cases, the adjective may function as a mass noun (as in the preceding example). In
English, it may also function as a plural count noun denoting a collective group, as in
"The meek shall inherit the Earth", where "the meek" means "those who are meek" or
"all who are meek".
Adverb
What is an adverb? An adverb is a word that modifies (describes) a verb (he sings loudly), an
adjective (very tall), another adverb (ended too quickly), or even a whole sentence (Fortunately, I
had brought an umbrella). Adverbs often end in -ly, but some (such as fast) look exactly the
same as their adjective counterparts.
Example : Tom Longboat did not run badly.
Tom is very tall.
The race finished too quickly.
Fortunately, Lucy recorded Tom’s win.

What do adverbs do?


When an adverb modifies a verb, it tells us how, when, where, why, how often, or
how much the action is performed. Here are some examples of adverbs modifying
verbs:
 How: He ran quickly.
 When: He ran yesterday.
 Where: He ran here.
 How often: He ran daily.
 How much: He ran fastest.

Types of Adverb
When an adverb modifies a verb, it can often be categorized as one of the following:
Type Examples

Adverb of Manner An adverb of manner tells us how an action occurs.


(how)  The lion crawled stealthily.
 Will you come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
(Comedian Spike Milligan)
(NB: Lots of adverbs of manner end "-ly.")

Adverb of Time An adverb of time tells us when an action occurs or how often.
(when and how  I tell him daily.
often)  What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Author Og
Mandino)
(NB: Adverbs of time that tell us how often something occurs (e.g.,
"always," "often," "sometimes") are also known as "adverbs of
frequency.")
Adverb of Place An adverb of place tells us where an action occurs.
(where)  I did not put it there.
 Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is,
alas, not so easy as looking at it. (Artist Vincent Van Gogh)

Adverb of Degree An adverb of degree tells us to what degree an action occurs.


(aka Adverb of  He works smarter.
Comparison)  Doubters make me work harder to prove them wrong.
(how much) (Businessman Derek Jeter)

Sources :
https://www.learngrammar.net/english-grammar/adjective
http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/adjectives.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/adverb/
https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/adverbs.htm

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