English Grammar No.1: Adjectives and Adverbs

Rule: Adjectives describe you or something. They tell how something is. Adverbs show how you do things, how things move, work, live, etc.

Compare these sentences:

The woman is beautiful. The old man sings beautifully.

That boy walks very slowly. The nice teacher has a slow brain.

How you make adverbs out of adjectives:

Soft - softly; strong - strongly; mad - madly; comfortable - comfortably.

Happy - happily; lucky - luckily; merry - merrily; naughty - naughtily.

Good - well; fast - fast; hard - hard (What's hardly?).

Sentences for practice:

1. Varf�r �r du s� lycklig?

2. De levde lyckligt i alla sina dar. (...ever after)

3. Sitter du bekv�mt?

4. Den h�r stolen �r mycket bekv�m.

5. En bra tennisspelare kan sl� till bollen b�de h�rt och mjukt .

6. Bra gjort!

7. Han k�r v�ldigt fort.

8. Madonna har en vacker r�st och en snabb bil.

9. Hon sjunger sjunger vackert och k�r knappast n�gonsin l�ngsamt.

10. Bengan har ett bra lag som han coachar bra.

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