Adjectives and Adverbs (With Poster)


Adjectives and Adverbs Poster

What's Adjectives?

Adjectives are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adverbs. Examples of adjectives are: big, small, blue, old, rich and nice. They give us more information about people, animals or things represented by nouns and pronouns. Adjectives fall into two categories: descriptive and limiting.

Descriptive adjectives are those which describe the colour, size, or quality of a person or a thing while limiting adjectives place restrictions on the words they modify (quantity, distance, possession, etc.)



Examples of adjectives:
·       The dress is expensive
That bag is different from the rest of the bags
His phone is similar to mine
I am disappointed of you
That man is very cruel
I am hungry


What's Adverbs?
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ). Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. Many descriptive adjectives can be changed to adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective base.

Adjectives
Adverbs
Loud
Loudly
Elegant
Elegantly
Slow
Slowly
Terrible
Terribly

Examples of adverbs:
He talks loudly
She walks slowly
I smell terribly because i have a cold


Adjectives With Linking Verbs
A special category of verbs connects or links the subject with the subject complement. Unlike most verbs, these do not show action. They must be modified by adjectives, not adverbs.
Verbs that can be linked to adjectives are:
Be, Become, Remain, Stay, Appear, Seem, Sound, Feel, Look, Smell, Taste

Example:
Utie feels bad for mocking Iyan
Louis becomes tired after running for 1 hour
Julia looks beautiful in that dress
They were sorry for cancelling the concert
The pizza tastes good
Jimmy looks at his dog happily

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Sumber:
Pyle, Michael A & Page, Mary Ellen Munoz. 1995. Cliffs TOEFL Preparation Guide Test of English as a Foreign Language. Series Editor Jerry Bobrow, Ph D.

McCharty, Chris. 2012. Adjective or Adverb. https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/adjective-or-adverb. Diakses tanggal 3 April 2020.

Anonim. Adjectives and Adverbs. https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/adjAdv.asp. Diakses tanggal 3 April 2020.


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