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Adjectives vs. Adverbs
Created by Kathryn Reilly
Similarities
• Adjectives and Adverbs…
…are both parts of speech
…both modify other words in a sentence
…both add important details
Adjectives
• Modify nouns
• Always come before the noun
• Answer the following questions:
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How many?
How much?
What kind?
Which one?
Adjective Examples
• The young man ran a red light.
• Which man ran the light? The YOUNG one.
• What kind of light? A RED one.
• A quiet panda ate fifty bamboo stalks.
– What kind of panda? A QUIET one.
– How many stalks? FIFTY
– What kind of stalks? BAMBOO.
Adverbs
• Modify verbs
• May appear before or after a verb
• Usually end in –ly, but not always
• Answer the following questions:
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How?
When?
Why?
Where?
To what degree?
Adverb Examples
• The dog quickly buried its bone.
– How did the dog bury the bone? QUICKLY
• I’ll meet you after class.
– When will you meet me? AFTER
• Barking loudly, the dog greeted his owner.
• Loudly barking, the dog greeted his owner.
– How did the dog bark? LOUDLY