STUDY GUIDE 4: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

THE ADJECTIVE

1- Which are the characteristics of the adjective? Name the four criteria to identify an
adjective.
2- When is an adjective “central” and when is an adjective “peripheral”? Give examples.
3- Discuss the adjective paradigm.
4- When do we say that an adjective is “participial”? Why? Provide examples
5- There are three syntactic functions of the adjective. Name them and find examples.
6- Which adjectives can be the Head of a Noun Phrase? What is the agreement of these
adjectives with the verb in the sentence?
7- The peripheral adjective can be classified according to syntactic function. Which are the
sub-classes?
8- How do adjectives relate to nouns? And to adverbs?
9- Which adjectives are predicative only? Discuss a-adjectives.
10- Name the semantic types of adjectives and give examples.

THE ADVERB

1- Which are the characteristics of the adverb? Name the three types of adverb according to
morphology.
2- Discuss the adverb paradigm.
3- Name the syntactic functions of adverbs. Give examples.
4- Which grammatical elements can the adverb modify? Provide examples

ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

1- Discuss the overlap between the adjective and adverb clases. How do we distinguish
adjective and adverb homomorphs?
2- Discuss the –ly ending for adjectives and the adverbs without –ly . Give examples.
3- Discuss the three types of comparison or adjectives and adverbs:
- To a higher degree
- To the same degee
- To a lower degree
4- Which forms of comparison are irregular?
5- How does the comparison of adverbs work?
6- How do we make the basis of comparison explicit?

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Randolph Quirk, et al)
Chapter 7