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What is the purpose of adjectives?
To modify a noun or a pronoun
What is the purpose of adverbs?
-Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Find the adjectives and identify the words they modify in the following sentence:
Clever students are eager to quickly complete hard work.
Cleaver- students
Eager- students
hard- word
About 90% of adverbs end with what suffix?
-ly
What are the kinds of adverbs? Give at least five.
adverb of time, place, manner, degree, frequency, negation, affirmation, reason
What are the kinds of adjectives?
(Name at least three)
descriptive, limiting, articles, demonstrative, nominal, interrogative
An adverb modifies a ________ when it describes how, where, when, to what extent, and in what manner something happened.
Verb
Find the adverbs and identify the words they modify in the following sentence:
Clever students are eager to quickly complete hard work.
Quickly- complete
What are the 3 degrees of comparison in an adjective?
Positive
Comparative
Superlative
daffodils beautiful fragrant her boyfriend yellow fresh with presented her
Her boyfriend presented her with beautiful fragrant fresh yellow daffodils.
Arrange the following adjectives in order.
stone, white, tiny, cottage, beautiful
beautiful tiny white stone cottage
An adverb modifies a(n) ___________ when it gives more information about what extent something was.
Adjective
Find the adjectives and identify the words they modify in the following sentence:
The very strong, large, quite old, thick, brown, Egyptian, sturdy oak ritual door briefly hung in the university library.
strong, large, old, thick, brown, Egyptian, oak, ritual- door
university- library
The noun "sorrow" means a deeply sad feeling.
The adjective "sorrowful" means something that is full of sadness.
Change the noun "glee" into a adverb which means to do something full of happiness.
Gleefully
tells the extent or intensity of an adjective or another adverb
Arrange the following words in order:
video game new friend my has an exciting
Find the adverbs:
Absolutely delighted, Jamel quickly walked far away.
Absolutely, quickly, far
Find the adverbs and identify the words they modify in the following sentence:
The very strong, large, quite old, thick, brown, Egyptian, sturdy oak ritual door briefly hung in the university library.
very- strong
quite- old
sturdy- oak
briefly- hung
The noun "danger" means something that is not safe.
The suffix "-ous" means full of.
Change the noun danger into an adverb.
Dangerously.
a wise imprisoned witch Indian old mean a old man
A mean old Indian witch imprisoned a wise old man.
What are the two modifiers in English?
Adjective and adverb
Clarify the adverbs: What do they modify?
Absolutely delighted, Jamel quickly walked far away.
Absolutely- delighted (modifies adjective)
Quickly- walked (modifies verb)
Far- walked (modifies verb)
Find the adjectives and adverbs and identify the words they modify in the following sentence:
Our exceedingly large, chatty English class meets outside regularly.
Adjectives:
large, chatty, English- class
Adverbs:
exceedingly- large
outside, regularly- meets
The noun "comfort" means a a state of relaxation.
The adjectival suffix "-able" means the ability to do
Add a negative prefix and change the noun comfort into a negative connotation adverb
Uncomfortable
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opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose