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    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs
    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs
    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs
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    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs

    By Alex Shepard

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    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs by Alex Shepard is your key to writing with style and confidence.

    Mixing up your adjectives and adverbs? Need a refresher on when to use comparative forms, how to avoid descriptions that twist your meaning, or what to do with compound adjectives? No problem! Easy English has got you covered.

    Written as a concise guide and reference book, Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs breaks down all the important facts you need to know. With abundant examples along the way, it explains each rule in simple English, making it perfect for easy study. And at the end, a quiz that covers every chapter will help make sure you know how to craft a perfect sentence every time.

    So use this guide to enrich your writing, and see how easy English can be!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Shepard
    Release dateApr 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463569276
    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs
    Author

    Alex Shepard

    Alex Shepard has been a language researcher for the better part of his life. He has postgraduate degrees in English literature and linguistics, and he has worked for over a decade with English second-language learners from around the world.For more help with your grammar, visit Rockwallerbooks.com!

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    Easy English! Adjectives & Adverbs - Alex Shepard

    Easy English!

    Adjectives & Adverbs

    by

    Alex Shepard

    First published 2018

    Publication © Rockwaller Books 2018

    Text © Alex Shepard 2018

    All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

    Publisher: Rockwaller Books

    Editor: Dane Wallace

    Proofreader: Adam Watson

    Cover Design: Emma Grey

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    @RockwallerBooks

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    Acknowledgments

    To my parents,

    for teaching me the joys of reading.

    And to you, the reader:

    If you find you this guide useful, please consider leaving a short comment or review. Your feedback is a massive help in creating more books for you and other learners.

    Contents

    Enrich Your Writing

    1. What Are Adjectives?

    1.1 General Adjectives

    1.2 Possessive Adjectives

    1.3 Demonstrative Adjectives

    1.4 Indefinite Adjectives

    1.5 Numbers

    1.6 Definite and Indefinite Articles

    2. What Are Adverbs?

    2.1 Modifying Verbs

    2.2 Modifying Adjectives

    2.3 Modifying Other Adverbs

    3. Types of Adverbs

    3.1 Adverbs of Time

    3.2 Adverbs of Place

    3.3 Adverbs of Manner

    3.4 Adverbs of Degree

    3.5 Adverbs of Frequency

    4. Adjectives and Commas

    4.1 The Comma Question

    5. Compound Adjectives

    5.1 Hyphenation

    6. Degrees of Comparison

    6.1 Positive Degree

    6.2 Comparative Degree

    6.3 Superlative Degree

    6.4 Irregular Forms

    6.5 Adverbs

    7. Predicative Adjectives

    7.1 Attributive vs. Predicative Adjectives

    7.2 Multiple Predicative Adjectives

    8. Misplaced Modifiers

    8.1 Misplaced Adjectives

    8.2 Misplaced Adverbs

    8.3 Misplaced Modifiers

    8.4 Dangling Participles

    9. Conjunctive Adverbs

    9.1 Joining Sentences

    9.2 Within a Clause

    10. Common Errors

    10.1 Mixing Adjectives and Adverbs

    10.2 Adjectives vs. Possessives

    10.3 Popular Phrases

    11. Adjective and Adverb Quiz

    11.1 Questions

    11.2 Answers

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    Adjectives and adverbs are like each other in a lot of ways. They both add description to our writing. This can cause a bit of confusion when it comes to choosing the right word to use in a sentence.

    Fortunately, despite their similarities on the surface, adjectives and adverbs play fundamentally different roles in our writing. By learning what these differences are, we can easily pick and choose our words to not only form a grammatical sentence but also breathe new life into our writing.

    In this guide, we’ll cover all the main topics you need to know: What exactly are adjectives and adverbs? How do we use them in our language? And what are the errors that people run into time and again?

    Armed with this knowledge, you’ll start to see exactly how the parts of a sentence fit together like cogs in a watch: when you

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