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I.
Adjective:
Abverb:
Quick
Quickly
serious
seriously
careful
carefully
quiet
quietly
heavy
heavily
Adjective:
Abverb:
Fluent
Fluently
special
specially
continuos
continuosly
frequent
frequently
happy
happily
Adjective:
Abverb:
nervous
nervously
perfect
perfectly
bad
badly
complete
completely
successful
successfully
Examples:
The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident.
Our holiday was too short. The time went very quickly.
Not all words ending in ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in ly,for example:
Lovely lonely
lively
silly
friendly
elderly
II.
Adjective + noun
Linking verb + adjective (especially be)
Tom is a careful driver.
We didnt go out because the heavy rain.
Please be quiet.
I as disappointed that the exam result was so bad.
Why do you look so serious?
She speaks perfect Englih.
Adjective+noun
Compare:
Tom looked sad when I saw him.
III.
We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs. For example:
Linking Verbs
He looked angry than ever once he knew his child committed crime
Lucy looks radiant in her new dress.
Smell
The cat smelt odorous after it swam in a dirty lake
The soup tastes good.
The flowers smell sweet.
The flowers she bought yesterday smell fragrant
Taste
His food tastes fabulous
The soup tastes good.
Grow
The weather grows colder and colder everyday
Turn
She turned sicker because of hard work for the whole month
Get
They get indignant at realizing that he is a robber
Lin t c cc tnh cht:
Khng din t hnh ng m din t trng thi hoc bn cht s vic.
ng sau chng phi l tnh t ch khng phi l ph t.
Khng c chia th tip din d di bt c thi no.
Be, become, remain cn c th ng trc mt cm danh t ch khng ch tnh t:
They remained sad even though I tried to cheer them up. (adjective)
Linking Verbs
beautifully
good
boring
interesting
clever
nice well
We have got a lot of ________________pupils in our class. Here are some of them: Sally is a
________________girl because she always gets good marks and she also plays the guitar very
________________. The boys think Sandra is even ________________and she is the most ________________girl,
too. But the girls dont like her because they think she is ________________and plays volleyball
________________. Everybody likes Pat because he is ________________and ________________at playing
football. And he also plays the saxophone very ________________. The most ________________pupil is
Cindy. She is tall, good looking and all the boys fall in love with her ________________. She is very
clever and she doesn't talk as ________________as a lot of our other girl.
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Linking Verbs