Wunacademy Language > English > Grammar > Adjectives Common Mistakes While Using Adjectives and Adverbs LESSON 6 OF 8 Download the Unacademy Learning App to watch this and over 200k more lessons in UPSC, SSC CGL, GATE, Google Play | © CAT and many more categories.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Objectives By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: 1. Doa quick comparison of Adjectives and adverbs 2. Identify common mistakes while using Adjectives and AdverbsCommon mistakes while using Adjectives ™ wnecademy Adverbs Adjective describes a noun and pronoun. It comes before a noun. We make slow progress. That is a beautiful flower. It can come after : A linking verb like be, get, become etc : Our progress was slow A sense verb (taste, smell, feel, look) : That food tastes/ smells / looks ‘amazing. Participle adjective: formed out of past or present participle forms of the verb: e.g: To amaze: Amazed, amazing To interest: interested, interestingCommon mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs ‘ing’ adjective descibes person or an object. He is an interesting person. His stories are interesting ‘ed’ adjectives describe feelings and attitudes. We are interested in him and his stories.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs An adverb describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a whole sentence. We walked slowly. He is an incredibly amazing cook. He cooks really amazingly dishesCommon mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Add ‘ly' at the end of adjective to change it into the adverb. If the adjective ends with y, change it to ‘i’ before adding ‘ly’ to it. Happy ----- Happily Lucky----luckilyCommon mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Exceptionst: Adverbs which are not formed using ly Good --- well Fast - fast Hard --- hard Early Late Far Long Short Straight fineCommon mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Note: Good and well How are you? Tam well : If you want to say you are in good health. I am fine: If you want to answer generally that everything with you is ok. Tam good.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Exception 2: Few words which end in ‘ly’ are adjectives and not adverb Lovely, friendly, lonely, orderly, silly, lively, deadly, timely She was lovely --- she welcomed us in lovely way/manner/fashion Exception 3: Few words ending in ly are both adjectives and adverbs. e.g. weekly It's a weekly magazine. I receive the magazine weekly.Common mistakes while using Adjectives ™ wnecademy Adverbs Exceptions 4: Situations where adjectives are used instead of adverbs 1. That was real fast. (really) 2. Come quick. (quickly) 3. The train is running slow today. (slowly) 4. He doesn't speak loud enough. (loudly)Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs 1. Using an adverb after linking verb or a sensory verb. The situation seemed unusually The situation seemed unusual. The garden looked beautifully The garden looked beautiful.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs 2. Using ing form to describe someone's feelings or attitude. Rahul is boring by his stories Rahul is bored by his stories because his stories are boring. They were surprising by the news. They were surprise by the news because news was surprising.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs 3. Using an adjective to describe a verb, another adjective or an adverb. He sings good He sings well. He is a wonderful good singer He is a wonderfully good singer. He sings incredible well. He sings incredibly well.Common mistakes while using Adjectives %wnacademy Adverbs Hard, late and short are both adjectives and adverbs. But words hardly, lately and shortly have completely different meanings. Hardly: Almost not. T hardly met him last week. (I almost did not meet him last week) He is a hard worker. (He works hard)Common mistakes while using Adjectives ™ wnecademy Adverbs Lately : Recently I havent seen her lately. The but was late. I arrived home late. Shortly: Soon Twill call you back shortly. It was a short lesson. He cut his speech short.