(Имена прилагательные и наречия)

Adjective + noun: a beautiful girl

to be, feel, look, smell, sound, taste + adjective: Jack is tall. You look sad.

Adverbs: He drives carefully. He walks slowly.

Adjective + ly = adverb

dangerous – dangerously

quick – quickly

gentle - gently (le, -e changes to –y)

horrible - horribly

easy – easily (consonant +y, the –y changes to –ily)

lazy- lazily

wonderful – wonderfully (final –l doubles)

Irregular adjectives & adverbs:

Adjective Adverb

good well

fast fast

hard hard

early early

late late

Exercise 1. Put the words from the list below into the correct column.

Good, nicely, well, monthly, sadly, cheap, tall, strongly, fast, cold, early, softly, wide, carefully, late, pretty, loudly, hard

Adjective Adverb Adjective and adverb

Exercise 2. Write the adverbs.

Example: polite – politely

1. nice _________________ 10. beautiful_____________

2. easy_________________ 11. soft_________________

3. dangerous____________ 12. early________________

4. good ________________ 13. noisy _______________

5. cheap ________________ 14. careful ______________

6. safe _________________ 15. happy ______________

7. hard _________________ 16. terrible ______________

8. comfortable ___________ 17. awful _______________

9. fast __________________ 18. fluent ______________

Exercise 3. Is the word in bold an adjective or an adverb?

Example: He is a good student. Adjective (adj.) прилагательное

She speaks loudly. Adverb (adv.) наречие

1. They arrived early._________ 2. He works hard._________

3. She is a pretty girl._________4. He drives carefully.________ 5. You dance very well. _______6. She learns quickly.________ 7.The film was sad._______ 8. She always looked miserable. ______ 9.It was an easy exam._______

Exercise 4. Underline the correct word.

Example: My bedroom is tidy / tidily.

1. It is snowing heavy / heavily. 2. Cross the road carefully / careful. 3. My father was angry / angrily yesterday. 4. Get ready for school quick / quickly. 5. The test was very easy / easily. 6. Your perfume smells nice / nicely. 7. Susan is smiling happy / happily. 8. He sings beautiful / beautifully. 9. It is very warm / warmly today. 10. She looks beautiful / beautifully tonight. 11. My boss is in a very bad / badly mood all day.

UNIT 8

Degrees of comparison