Adjective adverb.

*adjective adverb*

We add '-ly' to some adjectives to make adverbs 👇

📕Mandy is a careful girl.

Mandy drives carefully.

✅Mandy is a careful driver. This sentence is about Mandy, the driver, so use the adjective.

✅Mandy drives carefully. This sentence is about her way of driving, so use the adverb.

📘Some of them 👇

✅Adjective + -ly

adjective adverb 

dangerous 'dangerously 

careful ' carefully

nice ' nicely

horrible ' horribly.

easy ' easily

electronic ' electronically.

✅Irregular forms:👇

adjective adverb .

good' well.

fast' fast.

hard'  hard.

📕If the adjective ends in -y, change -y to -i. Then add -ly:

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happy – happily

but:👇

✅shy – shyly

If the adjective ends in -le, the adverb ends in -ly:

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terrible – terribly

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If the adjective ends in -e, then add -ly:

safe – safely

✅ Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs:

adjectives ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly

📕nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy

📘verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply

There is no adverb for an adjective ending in -ly.

📕Use of adverbs 👉to modify verbs👇

✅The handball team played badly last Saturday.

✅to modify adjectives👇

It was an extremely bad match.

📕to modify adverbs👇

The handball team played extremely badly last Wednesday.

✅to modify quantities👇

There are quite a lot of people here.

✅ to modify sentences👇

Unfortunately, the flight to Dallas had been cancelled.

✅ Types of adverbs👇

📘Adverbs of manner👇

quickly

kindly

✅Adverbs of degree👇

very

rather

✅ Adverbs of frequency👇

often

sometimes

✅ Adverbs of time👇

now

today

✅Adverbs of place👇

here

nowhere

📕How do know whether to use an adjective or an adverb 👇

✅Here is another example:

I am a slow walker. (How am I? → slow → adjective)

I walk slowly. (How do I walk? → slowly → adverb)

✅Adjective or Adverb after special verbs

✅Both adjectives and adverbs may be used after look, smell and taste. Mind the change in meaning.

Here are two examples:

✅How are you? – I'm well, thank you. (physical state)

✅Use the adjective when👉 you say something about the person itself.

👉Use the adverb, when you want to say about the action.