Parts of Speech Adjectives and Adverbs Adjectives Modify

Parts of Speech Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives • Modify or describe nouns and pronouns

Adjectives Usually explain: • What Kind • Which one • How many

Examples • • Insufferable snob Eclectic style Russian students Federal court Only one Four fouls *Note: each of the bolded adjectives describe the noun that follows

Predicate Adjectives • The adjectives are separated from the noun it describes by a verb

Example Predicate Adjectives • The protests have become violent. • The gift was extraordinary.

Nouns as adjectives • Nouns can also be used as adjectives • • Examples: Film director Cattle business Stone cutter

Adverbs • Modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs as well as phrases and clauses.

Adverbs Answer the questions: How? When? Where? How often? How much?

Easy identifier • Most end in “Ly” • However, not all end this way.

Tricky Adverbs (don’t end in ly) • • • • Often Always Never Sometimes Almost Seldom Also Just only Even Soon Last still

Adverbs that answer “Where” • • • Here There Everywhere Somewhere Inside Underground Outside Upstairs Downstairs

Examples • A police bomb squad in India carefully dismantled a 1, 000 -pound bomb that had been dropped during World War II, but it never exploded. • (describes how and when)

Examples • To fly there regularly would be too expensive • (explains where, how often, and how much)