Adjectives and Adverbs

Beautiful describes someone´s opinion about the forest.

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​In this case "Pretty" works as an adverb, like "very"

​Wow!

It´s a beautiful wood!!!

​Wow!!! It´s a pretty beautiful wood.

Represents the appropriate order given to FACT ADJECTIVES​:

Size, Age, Shape, Colour,

Origin, Material, Purpose.​

​(can be proven)

​There are other adjectives like DETERMINERS.

​OSASCOMP

OPINION is the first one because it is based on someone´s perception.

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​E.g. My grandma loves this big, old, wooden, kitchen table

​This (determiner (the are first in the sentence)

​Big (Opinion)

​ Wooden (material)

Kitchen (purpose)​

Sometimes people use a different order to emphasize

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Organize the next adjectives correctly: She participated in race Italian an old

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Unscramble the next item: ? leather borrow bag your fancy can I Italian new

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Organize the next sentence correctly: blue I cotton love this short shirt elegant

​...a fertilize, well-drained, and level piece of land..

...a large, nocturnal and furry rodent...

...a shiny, hard, smooth and thick layer​...

​...the cheapest technically feasible solution...

...a locally grown early-naturing cultivar...​

​Examine the following two sets of examples, one with commas and another without them.

​With commas

Coordinated adj.​

​With no commas

Non Coordinated adj.​

Build upon one another and should not be separated.

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The two tall women were fishing.

​Cumulative Adjectives

Modify nouns separately and equally.

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Across the fence, Mr. Schaeffer viewed a wild, overgrown, unruly yard.

Coordinate Adjectives

Using commas with adjectives

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Multiple Choice

I can drink a full water bottle in under a minute.

• comma

• no comma

• water full

• water, full

Multiple Choice

I had to wash my gross stinky socks by themselves so they wouldn't taint my other clothes.

• comma

• no comma

Multiple Choice

Look at that big red dog!

• comma

• no comma

Multiple Choice

Your enormous lava lamp was shining in my eyes when I was trying to sleep.

• comma

• no comma

Nouns as Adjectives

My garden has vegetables. It is a vegetable garden.

The program is on television. It´s a television program.

He climbs mountains. He is a mountain climber.​

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1. The lesson concerned history. It was a ___________________________.

2. Tom works for the government. He is a ____________________________.

3. The soup has beans. It is a ______________________________.​

4. The factory makes automobiles. It's a ______________________________.

5. Janet forecasts the weather. She´s a ___________________________.​

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Subject | Subject

Adjectives are always singular.​

​Adverbs...

• ...modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, responding to how, when, where, why, or to what extent—how often or how much...

​Examples:

He speaks slowly (tells how)

He speaks very slowly (the adverb very tells how slowly)

They arrived today (tells when)

They will arrive in an hour (this adverb phrase tells when)

Let's go outside (tells where)

We looked in the basement (this adverb phrase tells where)

Bernie left to avoid trouble (this adverb phrase tells why)

Jorge works out strenuously (tells to what extent)

Jorge works out whenever possible (tells to what extent)

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Additionally, if an adjective can have -ly added to it, form an adverb. Write the adverb form for the next adjectives: Bad, Quick, fast, special, common.