Test it, Fix it. English grammar - Kenna Bourke 2003
Adjectives and adverbs
Test it
1 Five of these sentences are incorrect. Find and correct them.
2 Choose the correct sentence in each pair.
a Malcolm speaks well Italian.
b Malcolm speaks Italian well.
c That perfume smells wonderful!
d That perfume smells wonderfully!
e A kitten is a cat young.
f A kitten is a young cat.
g They test weekly the fire alarms.
h They test the fire alarms weekly.
i I read five good books on holiday.
j I read five goods books on holiday.
Test it again
1 Solve the clues to complete the crossword. Use the words below.
bad
badly
easy
easily
good
well
slow
slowly
soft
softly
strange
strangely
Across
2 The hairdresser cut my hair ... yesterday.
3 The soup tastes ... . What's in it?
5 Our French exam was quite ... .
7 Have you seen any ... films recently?
8 My rabbit has ... white fur.
9 Danger... Drive...
11 Nick is a ..., ..., reader but he loves books.
Down
1 You're talking ...
Have you got toothache?
4 The meat smells ... .
Let's throw it away.
5 I can ... drink three litres of water a day.
6 Don't worry,' she said ...
10 Thierry Herve played really ... in the match.
2 Choose the best option.
a Patrick has hair blond/blond hair.
b Sue didn't enjoy much the film/the film much.
c You look angry/angrily - what's wrong?
d Vicky shouted loudly/loud.
e The Alps are very snowys/snowy in winter.
f The music sounds cheerful/cheerfully.
g Hie situation is serious/seriously.
h Don't drive so fast/fastly.
i The Times is a paper daily/diaily paper
j This tastes delicious/deliciously!
Fix it
Answers to Test it
Check your answers. Wrong answer?
Read the right Fix it note to find out why.F
2 The correct sentences are:
b → D h → D
c → C i → B
f → A
Answers to Test it again
2 a blond hair
f cheerful
b the film much
g serious
Fix it notes
A
Put adjectives before (not after! nouns or pronouns.
В
Adjectives don't change their form with singular or plural nouns.
C
Put adjectives (not adverbs) after these verbs: appear, be, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, sound, taste.
D
Don't put adverbs between the verb and the object. Usually put them at the end of the sentence.
E
Early and late; fast and hard; daily, weekly and monthly are adjectives and adverbs.
Review
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives
• You use adjectives to say more about a noun or a pronoun. Adjectives go before (not after) the noun or pronoun.
• You don't change the form of an adjective with singular or plural nouns.
• You put adjectives after (not before) these verbs: appear, be, become, feel, get, look, seem, smell, sound, taste.
• You use an adjective (not an adverb) after these verbs: appear, be, become, feel, not, look, seem, smell, sound, taste.
Adverbs
• You form most adverbs by adding ly to the adjective.
quick →quickly
But be careful. Some adverbs are irregular.
good → well She's a good runner. She runs well.
hard → hard Digging is hard work. He works hard.
• You use adverbs to say more about verbs. Adverbs tell you how, where, when or how much something happens. You usually put them at the end of the sentence. You don't put them between the verb and its object.
Adjectives and adverbs
• Early and late; hard and fast; daily, weakly end monthly can be adjectives anil adverbs.
He always catches the early ham. I got up early
I always get a daily paper. They publish The Times daily.