Utiliser correctement les adjectifs et les adverbes

J’utilise correctement les adjectifs

• King James is a strong basketball player.
• It is said that reading is important.

Strong and important are adjectives. An adjective describes or qualifies a noun or tells us more about it.

Adjectives are often placed before a noun or after a linking verb (ex: be, seem, look, etc...)

Example: He is a nice boy.

The man we met seems intelligent.

There are many pairs of adjectives ending in –ing and –ed.

Ex: English is interesting that’s why students are interested in it.

Someone is –ed  if something is –ing. Or if something is –ing, it makes someone –ed.

Ex: The boy is excited because the film is fascinating.

The film is fascinating that’s why the boy is excited.

Football is amusing.

My friend seems worried about his studies.

Common pairs of adverbs ending in –ing and –ed:

Short adjectives change in form when used in the comparative of superiority or superlative.

Example: He is older than the other boys.

It is the largest city I have ever visited.

These kids are happier than the other.

The quicker, the better.

J’utilise correctement les adverbes

A good student learns carefully his lessons.

Teachers often explain the lessons clearly. 

• Carefully and clearly are adverbs. An adverb modifies the meaning of a verb or tells us how someone does something or how something happens.

Adverbs are generally placed before the verb or after the verb or auxiliary.

Example: She drives carefully.

Your help is highly appreciated.

They are comfortably sitting in the living room.

He fights actively.    

The driver seriously got injured.

Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -ly.

Examples:

NB: →Some words end in –ly and are not adverbs. 

Some adjectives end in –ly: example: (friendly, lively, elderly, lonely, silly, lovely.)

Ex: She is a lovely girl.

Our teacher of English is very friendly.

→Good is an adjective but the adverb is well.

Ex: The English of John is good.

John speaks English well.

This boy is well-educated.

My uncle has got a good job and he is well-paid.

→Some words can be at the same time adjectives and adverbs: ‘fast, hard, late’

Adjectives Adverbs

Usain Bolt is a very fast runner. He runs fast.

My grandfather was a hard worker. The President works hard.

The teacher is late again. They arrived late at the meeting.

• The adverbs of frequency:

[often, usually, always, rarely, seldom, sometimes, generally, never, every…, occasionally, etc…] 

The adverbs of frequency show that an action is repeated over and over. 

They are often placed before the verb or after the auxiliary. 

• sometimes, generally, occasionally, every…, can be placed at the beginning or end of the sentence.

        Example: I often pray before getting out.

We always abide by the law.

Every year, they go to Sweden on holidays.

She has never visited a museum.          

• Adverbs of degree:

[very, enough, too, quite, extremely, also, rather, slightly, highly, intensely etc…]

Adverbs of degree are generally placed before the adjective, adverb, or the verb that they modify.

Example: My friend Katy is very intelligent.

The doctor highly recommended that we practice sport.