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Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjectives & Adverbs. ADJECTIVES: modify nouns & pronouns How many? Which one? What kind? ADVERBS: modify verbs, adjectives, & other adverbs Where? When? How? To what extent? EX) The (loud, loudly) music hurt my ears. EX) She played the music (loud, loudly) enough to shake the walls.

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Adjectives & Adverbs

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  1. Adjectives & Adverbs ADJECTIVES: modify nouns & pronouns • How many? Which one? What kind? ADVERBS: modify verbs, adjectives, & other adverbs • Where? When? How? To what extent? EX) The (loud, loudly) music hurt my ears. EX) She played the music (loud, loudly) enough to shake the walls.

  2. Linking Verbs • Express a state of being • To be; seem; become • Followed by an adjective • That clown is funny. • She became incoherent. 3. Some verbs can be linking OR action verbs. • Remain; appear; look; smell; grew; feel; taste; sound • I tasted those cookies • Those cookies tasted delicious.

  3. Linking Verbs/Action Verbs • Remain; appear; look; smell; grew; feel; taste; sound • if you can’t tell whether the verb is a LV or AV, replace it with a form of to be. If the sentence makes sense, it is a LV; if not, it is an AV • Your perfume smells too strong. (Your perfume IS too strong.) • As soon as I walked in, I smelled popcorn. (I AM popcorn.) • Linking verbs are followed by nouns or adjectives. • As the debate progressed, the defenders of tax reform grew more and more (excited, excitedly).

  4. Comparatives & Superlatives Comparatives – compare 2 things • Er/more • The bus is quicker than the train. • She is more beautiful than a gorilla. Superlatives – compare more than 2 things • Est/most • He is the quickest on the team. • She is the most beautiful of all the gorillas. • Of the eight boxers, Jones hits (harder, hardest) than Smith, but Williams hits (harder, hardest) of all.

  5. Most/Almost MOST = adverb (superlative) • She is the MOST obnoxious girl in class. MOST = adjective • Most children like ice-cream. ALMOST = adverb • Almost every person likes popcorn. Most CAN NOT be used for the adverb ALMOST: • Most every person likes popcorn.

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