Grammar – Chapter 2 Teacher Maria

LESSON 2: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

I. Adjectives
An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.
Examples:
• She has a big house.
• He is brave.
• The book is old.
1. Position of adjective
to be + adj The dinosaur is enormous.
adj + N I have a blue card.
linking verbs + adj You look tired.
smell, taste, sound, look, feel, become/ turn/ get, The food taste good.
seem

2. Order of adjectives

Example:

II. Adverbs
1. Position of adverb
After a verb or before an adjective or another The turtle runs slowly.
adverb He reads the book extremely happily.
2. Formation of adverbs from adjective

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Adjective Add -ly

beautiful beautifully
careful carefully
Adjectives ending in -y Change y to i and add -ly
noisy noisily
Adjectives ending in -ue Drop e and add -ly
true truly
Adjectives ending in -le Drop le and add -ly
terrible terribly
Adjectives ending in -ic Add -ally
enthusiastic enthusiastically
basic basically
Adjective Exceptions
good well
fast fast
early early

PRACTICE
Exercise 1: Circle the correct answer.

Exercise 2: Put the words from the list below into the correct column.

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Exercise 3: Circle the correct answer.

1. They dance the Tango (beautiful / beautifully)
2. She planned their trip to Greece very (careful / carefully)
3. Jim painted the kitchen very (bad / badly)
4. She speaks very (quiet / quietly)
5. Turn the stereo down. It's too (loud / loudly)
6. He skipped________ down the road to school. (happy / happily)
7. He drives too (fast / well) .
8. She knows the road (good / well)
9. He plays the guitar (terrible / terribly)
10. We're going camping tomorrow so we have to get up (early /soon)
11. Andy doesn't often work (hard / hardly)
12. Sometimes our teacher arrives______for class. (late / lately)
13. In a bold, sometimes careless / carelessly, form there is nothing academic.
14. Last week we buried my closest friend, and it was a deep / deeply moving service.
15. She straightened up and looked out the window direct / directly at him.
16. All goes good / well, and after some time he feels relaxed enough to go for a walk.
17. Interesting / Interestingly, the changes the adapter has made seem designed to make the story
even more frightening.
18. He joined dozens of others that sailed lazy / lazily toward the surface.
19. Frankly, it is very clever / cleverly done.
20. There are already rumours that publishers are feeling nervous / nervously.
21. Children should be cared for by a (normal / normally) and healthy family.
22. All we wanted to do was to stand very (quiet / quietly) and look and look and look.
23. It was (nice / nicely) packaged and wrapped in pretty, recycled paper.

Exercise 4. Underline the correct item.

1. The arrow flew wide / widely of the target.
2. Computers are wide / widely used in schools.

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3. Students can enter the museum free / freely on Saturdays.

4. He free / freely admitted that he was guilty.
5. I like sitting near / nearly the fire.
6. Be careful! You near / nearly hit the window.
7. She left too late / lately to catch the train.
8. Have you seen any good films late / lately?
9. She loved her brother deep / deeply.
10. To find water, they had to dig deep / deeply into the ground.
11. I think he’s a pretty / prettily good singer, actually.
12. The rooms were pretty / prettily furnished.
13. He tries very hard / hardly to make her happy.
14. Jim hard / hardly goes out these days.
15. Tommy came last / lastly in the 100m sprint.
16. Last / Lastly, I would like to thank the chef for providing such a delicious meal.
17. Mr Tibbs isn’t in at the moment but he’ll be here short / shortly.
18. The woman stopped short / shortly when she saw the robber.
19. The eagle was flying high / highly in the sky.
20. My father is a high / highly respected surgeon.

Exercise 5. Fill in the blank with suitable adjectives or adverbs.

1. He _______________reads a book. (quick)
2. Mandy is a ___________________girl. (pretty)
3. The class is ________________loud today. (terrible)
4. Max is a______________ singer. (good)
5. You can _______________open this tin. (easy)
6. It's a ______________day today. (terrible)
7. She sings the song____________ . (good)
8. He is a ______________driver. (careful)
9. He drives the car . (careful)
10. The dog barks___________. (loud)
11. The bus driver was__________________ injured. (serious)
12. Kevin is ___________________clever. (extreme)
13. This hamburger tastes__________________. (awful)
14. Be __________________with this glass of milk. It's hot. (careful)
15. Robin looks _______________. What's the matter with him? (sad)
16. Jack is _____________upset about losing his keys. (terrible)
17. This steak smells ______________. (good)
18. Our basketball team played ______________________last Friday. (bad)
19. Don't speak so _______________. I can't understand you. (fast)
20. Maria _________________opened her present. (slow)
21. Tom is (slow) _________________ He works .
22. Sue is a (careful )_____________ girl. She climbed up the ladder .

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23. The dog is (angry)________________ It barks .

24. He acted (excellent)____________________ He's an actor.
25. They learn English (easy)_____________ They think English is an language.
26. Max is a (good)_______________ singer. He sings _____________.
27. It's (awful)_____________ cold today. The cold wind is_____________ .
28. Dogs rely on their noses as they can smell (extreme / good)__________ If that is true, why does
dog food smell so(terrible)_________ ?
29. The little boy looked (sad)____________ I went over to comfort him and he looked at me.
30. I tasted the soup (careful) ___________ but it tasted (wonderful)______.

Exercise 6. Use the correct adjectives and adverbs to complete the exchanges.

Exercise 7: Fill in the box follow instruction.

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A circle Vietnamese Text

short curly blue
A bad antique red

Exercise 8. Put the adjectives in brackets in the corect order.

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curly green

huge red plastic

shiny silver

long plastic

cool new

tasty crunchy

traditional delicious

Exercise 9. Put the adjectives in the correct order.

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Exercise 10. Put the adjectives in the corect order.

Exercise 11. Say the sentences putting the words in the correct order.

Exercise 12. Rewrite the sentences in the correct order.

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