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Title: Adjectives and Adverbs


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Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Adjectives describe nouns.
  • Adverbs modify verbs and adjectives.

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How do adjectives function?
  • Adjectives describe nouns or pronouns.
  • My neighbor Kabir is a successful salesman.
  • The adjective successful tells what kind of
    salesman Kabir is.
  • His work schedule is complicated.
  • Complicated describes his work schedule.

Why is the woman asking about the mans success?
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How do adjectives compare?
  • Adjectives can compare
  • Short adjectives add -er to compare 2 things
  • Add -est to compare 3 or more things
  • His company is bigger than the firm in Haddon
    Hills.
  • The biggest agency in the area is not the best.

Do people usually compare their bank balances?
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When do we use more or most?
  • Adjectives with two or more syllables use more
    when comparing 2 things
  • Use most when comparing three or more things
  • Mr. Martin is more educated than his accountant.
  • Still, his wife Adri is the most educated person
    in the group.

Do whites tell more lies?
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Should we use more and -er?
1. Be careful that you do not use both -er ending
AND more or both -est ending AND most.
  • INCORRECT
  • The detective is the most smartest person who
    works with the agency.
  • CORRECT
  • The detective is the smartest person who works
    with the agency.

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Should we use more and -er?
2. Do not confuse the few irregular adjectives.
Comparative (two)
Superlative (three or more)
Bad Good, well Little Much
Worse Better Less More
Worst Best Least most
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How do adverbs function?
  • Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other
    adverbs.
  • Adverbs often end -ly.
  • The investigator acts quickly when he is hired.
  • The very priceless statue is gone.
  • The adverb describes the adjective priceless.

Are the kids really slow? Or should cars go
slowly?
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Can adjectives replace adverbs?
1. No a common mistake is to use an adjective
instead of an adverb with a verb.
  • INCORRECT
  • The behavior of the wrongfully accused boy
    changed real sudden when the boy found out that
    an investigator would help prove him innocent.
  • CORRECT
  • The behavior of the wrongfully accused boy
    changed suddenly when the boy found out that an
    investigator would help prove him innocent.

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2. Do not confuse good and well. The word
good is an adjective it describes nouns. The
word well is an adverb.
  • Detective Price did a good job on the reports. (
    Good describes the noun job.)
  • She phrased the questions well. (Well is an
    adverb describing the verb phrased.)

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Can nouns work as adjectives?
  • WRONG
  • The technology advancements make it easier to
    investigate fraud.
  • RIGHT
  • The technological advancements make it easier to
    investigate fraud.

Do computers always Make life easier?
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Can you correct the mistakes?
  • Although Sean does not speak Spanish too good, he
    went to a rural part of Mexico.
  • How quick his poor Spanish improved in those
    weeks.
  • The toucans there were the more interesting
    birds.
  • The most biggest spiders scared him.

Shouldnt traveling make life more interesting?
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