Adjectives

Adjectives fall into two categories: descriptive and limiting.

Descriptive adjectives are those which describe the color, size, or quality
of a person or thing (noun and pronoun). Limiting adjectives place
restrictions on the words they modify (quantity, distance, possession, ets).
Note: only these and those are plural forms. All others remain the same
whether the noun is singular or plural.

Descriptive Limiting
Beautiful Cardinal Numbers (one,two)
Large Ordinal Numbers (first,
Red second)
Interesting Possessives (my, your, his)
Important Demonstratives (this, that,
Colorful these, those)
Quantity (few, many, much)
Articles (a, an, the)
When descriptive adjectives modify a singular countable noun, they are
usually preceded by a, an, or the.

A pretty girl an interesting story the red dress

Regular comparatives and superlatives

Positif comparatives superlatives

Happy happier happiest

Beautiful more beautiful most beautiful

Irregular comparatives and superlatives

Positive comparative superlative

Good better best

Little less least

Bad worse worst

Adverbs

Adverbs modify verbs (except linking verbs), adjectives or other adverbs.

Many descriptive adjectives can be changed to adverbs by
adding-ly to the adjective best.

Adjectives Adverbs
Bright Brightly
Careful Carefully
Quiet Quietly

Type of adverbs:

1. Adverb of time (never, lately, just, always, recently, during, yet, soon,
sometimes, usually, so far)
So far, we have found twelve grammar mistakes.
I have not been going to the gym lately
2. Adverbs of place (here, there, nowhere, everywhere, out, in, above,
below, inside, outside, into)
We went into the cave, and there were bats everywhere
There are not any pokemon here, let’s look somewhere else
3. Adverbs of manner (neatly, slowly, quickly, sadly, calmly, politely,
loudly, kindly, lazily)
I politely opened the door for my grandmother as she stepped out
ofthe car
A fat orange and white cat rested lazily on the sofa
4. Adverbs of degree (almost, quiet, nearly, too, enought, just hardly,
simply, so)
Can I come to the movies too?
 I’m so excited to see the new disney movie!
5. Adverbs of frequency (never, sometimes, always, rarely, normally,
seldom, usually, again)
Tom usually takes his dog for a walk before breakfast
They always go to the same restaurant every Friday
Note: The following words are also adverbs: so, very, almost,soon,
often, fast, rather, well, there, too. An adverb answers the questions:
How..?
John is reading carefully (How is John reading?)
I don’t play tennis very well (How well do I play?)
He was driving fast (How was he driving?)

Adjectives with linking (Copulative) verbs

A special category of verbs connects or links the subject with the
subject complement (predicate adjective). Unlike most verbs, these
do not show action. They must be modified by adjectives, not
adverbs.
Be appear look
Become seem smell
Remain sound taste
Stay feel
Mary feels bad about her test grade
Children become tired quite easily
Lucy look radiant in her new dress
Be, become, and remain can be followed by noun phrases as well as
adjective
They remained sad even thought I tried to cheer them up
Children often become bored at meetings
Ted will be prom king this year
Feel, look, smell, and taste may also be transitive verbs and take a
direct object. When they function in this way, they become active
and are modified by adverbs. Notice the following pairs of sentences.
Those which take objects are active, and those which do not are
linking.
The doctor felt the leg carefully to see if there were any broken
bones (object adverb)
Mike felt ecstatic after passing his law school exam (adjective)
Professor Ingells looked at the exams happily (object adverb:happily)
Joey does not look happy today (adjective)