Adjectives and adverbs 1
副詞と形容詞です。例です。
Our holiday was too short – the time very quickly.
Two people were seriously injured in the accident.
Quickly and seriously are adverbs.
Many adverbs are formed from an adjective + -ly:
adjective: quick, serious, careful, quiet, heavy
adverb: quickly, seriously, carefully, quietly, heavily
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs.
Some adjectives end in –ly too, for example:
friendly, lively, elderly, lonely, silly, lovely
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Adjectives (quick / careful etc.) tell us about a noun (somebody or something).
We use adjectives before nouns:
形容詞は名詞の説明に使います。
Sam is a careful driver. (not a carefully driver)
We didn’t go out because of the heavy rain.
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Adverbs (quickly / carefully etc.) tell us about a verb
(how somebody does something or how something happens):
副詞は動詞の説明に使います。
Sam drove carefully along the narrow road. (not drove careful)
We didn’t go out because it was raining heavily. (not raining heavy)
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We also use adjectives after some verbs, especially be, and also look/feel/sound etc.
Please be quiet.
Please speak quickly.
I was disappointed that my exam results were so bad.
I was unhappy that I did so badly in the exam. (not did so bad)
Why do you always look so serious?
Why do you never take me seriously?
I feel happy.
The children were playing happily.
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We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs.
For example:
reasonably cheap (adverb + adjective)
terribly sorry (adverb + adjective)
incredibly quickly (adverb + adverb)
It’s a reasonably cheap restaurant and the food is extremely good.
I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t mean to push you.
Maria learns languages incredibly quickly.
The exam was surprisingly easy.
You can also use adverb before a past participle (injured/ organized/ written etc. )
Two people were seriously injured in the accident. (not serious injured)
The meeting was badly organized.
副詞と形容詞についてでした。
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