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comprehension skills by applying one
simple point of grammar
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So here is the simple point of grammar it's how to turn an adjective
Into an adverb first. Remember that an adjective is a word that describes or
Gives more information about a noun here are some simple examples
Nice a nice man gave me some advice today
Our teacher is very nice
Helpful I gave a big tip to the helpful driver of the taxi
Was your last class helpful?
Here are some slightly more difficult examples
Romantic my wife loves romantic movies. Can you be more romantic?
Public
This is a public restroom
Anyone can use it?
This video is now public
Anyone can watch it
Notice that an adjective
Usually comes right before the noun that it describes
Nice, man
helpful driver
romantic movies public
restroom in
Some cases it can appear at the end of a sentence in which you identify
something using a word like is so is
nice
was
helpful be
romantic is
public
Okay, so that's an adjective
now an
Adverb is a word that describes or gives more information about a verb
Here are a couple of examples
quickly
This word means to do an action in a fast way or a quick way
This is the adverbial form of the adjective click
the winner of the race ran quickly
Happily this word means to do an action in a happy way or with a happy attitude
This is the adverbial form of the adjective
happy
So the whole team worked happily on the project together
Notice that an adverb
Usually is placed close to the verb that it describes ran quickly
worked happily
But as you get more confident at English
You'll notice that adverbs are a little bit more free in their position
They can be moved around in a sentence more, but don't worry when you're just learning
try to keep the adverb close to the verb it gets it gives information about so let's go back to the
Adverb examples. I just used quickly and
Happily these words show the basic rule of grammar of this lesson
The net rule is turning adjectives into adverbs
many adverbs
maybe even most adverbs in in that suffix ly
if you want more information about
Suffixes by the way, check out our English. Dandy video explaining what prefixes and suffixes are
Now so for quick the adjective quick just add the ly ending and you make it an ember
quickly
for happy and other adjectives ending in the letter Y you change that letter y 2i and
Then add ly to get the adverb form the reason it's not important
But it has to do with how that word sounds so listen happy
happily
That little sound change from E to early
So we changed the letter Y to I to indicate a sound change
Happy becomes happily
lazy becomes lazily
crazy becomes crazily
dirty that comes dirtily and so
Okay. Now let's go back to the example adjectives. I used at the beginning and those were nice
helpful
public and
romantic
Can you turn these into adverbs?
Well
nicely
Helpfully
publicly
Romantic is in a regular case
This word when it becomes an adjective ends in a ll Y, but it's still pronounced romantically
there are other words similar to this that also in in al ly
For their adverb forms those examples include academic
Which becomes?
academically and
Sarcastic which becomes sarcastically
Right, so how do we use these words
The waiter very nicely gave us some advice
How did he give the advice he gave it in a nice way he gave it nicely
This company is publicly traded on the stock exchange. How is it treated?
Publicly, it's public. So anyone can buy stock in it
These two celebrities are romantically involved
How are they involved?
Romantic way they are in a romance. I'm sorry. They are in a romance together
Here is another case which looks like an
lly adverb, but it isn't and that word is
usually
This adverb is just the adverb form of the adjective
usual plus the usual ly ending usually so I
Could say ly is the usual ending of an English adverb English adverbs
Usually end in a lot
Just to make things a little more confusing for you though, there are some engine English adjectives which end in ly
They're not adverbs
So here are some examples
friendly
lonely
These are not adverbs. They're
adjectives so you could say a friendly person a lonely person and
actually these adverbs do not have
adverbial forms
If you want to use them as an adverb, you have to use a construction like in a friendly way
well, luckily that's all you need to know for today's lesson and
Fortunately now that you know this rule you can expand your vocabulary
twice
every time you learn a new
Adjective because once you know an adjective you probably know the adverb form of it, too
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