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\IAdjectives
Adverbs
Modify (a.k.a. describe):
Modify (a.k.a. describe):
 VERBS
 NOUNS
 PRONOUNS
 ADJECTIVES
 OTHER ADVERBS
Good
Well
Ex: The pizza was good.
Ex: The pizza sold well.
Ex:
Ex:
Well
(“in good health”)
Ex: She is not well after surgery.
Real
Really
Ex: Medical inventions can make a
real difference.
Ex: A few inventions really changed
how we live.
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Ex:
Bad
Badly
Ex: I had a bad day.
Ex: I did badly on the history test.
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Ex:
Practice and Apply
A. Identify and label the part of speech of the word being modified.
B. Then, circle the correct word in parentheses.
C. Label the word you choose as an adjective or adverb.
1. Today we take (real, really) good medical care for granted, but history is full of
examples of ineffective medicine.
2. Many early treatments were (badly, bad).
3. Unsuccessful treatments were (bad, badly) for both patients and doctors.
4. But if they got well, patients thought their doctors were (good, well).
5. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates helped rid medicine of magic, superstition,
and other (real, really) bad elements.
Adjective or Adverb?
verbs
A. Identify and label the part of speech of the word being modified.
adjectives
B. Then, circle the correct word in parentheses.
adverbs
C. Label the word you choose as an adjective or adverb.
1. What makes an invention (good, well)?
2. Is a new device (real, really) good if people use it (bad, badly)?
nouns
pronouns
3. The writer Jared Diamond describes the history of some (really, real) helpful inventions
that were not used (good, well) at first.
4. For example, the wheel was not a (real, really) advantage for the people of ancient
Mexico.
5. Without animals to pull vehicles, they (real, really) couldn’t use wheels.
6. An inventor may create something unique without knowing what it is (good, well) for.
7. This happened to Thomas Edison, who did very (good, well) as an inventor.
8. But his plans for the phonograph give us a (good, well) laugh today.
9. Some (bad, badly) ones included using it to teach speech or to record the words of
dying people.
10. When businesspeople began playing music on the phonograph, Edison thought this
was a (real, really) mistake!