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    The Function of Adjectives and Adverbs

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    Adjectives and adverbs modify or provide additional information about other words. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, describing qualities like "beautiful" or quantities like "many." Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, describing how an action was done, like "quickly," or how something was described, like "very." Adverbs are typically formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, though some are irregular like "well" from "good" or identical to the adjective, such as "fast."

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    Adjectives and adverbs modify or provide additional information about other words. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, describing qualities like "beautiful" or quantities like "many." Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, describing how an action was done, like "quickly," or how something was described, like "very." Adverbs are typically formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, though some are irregular like "well" from "good" or identical to the adjective, such as "fast."

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    Adjectives and adverbs modify or provide additional information about other words. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, describing qualities like "beautiful" or quantities like "many." Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, describing how an action was done, like "quickly," or how something was described, like "very." Adverbs are typically formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, though some are irregular like "well" from "good" or identical to the adjective, such as "fast."

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    Adjectives and adverbs modify or provide additional information about other words. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, describing qualities like "beautiful" or quantities like "many." Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, describing how an action was done, like "quickly," or how something was described, like "very." Adverbs are typically formed by adding "-ly" to an adjective, though some are irregular like "well" from "good" or identical to the adjective, such as "fast."

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    The function of adjectives and adverbs Adjectives and adverbs are words that modify other words, or give

    more information about them. Consider the following sentences: Melanie is a girl. Bill ran home. There are no adjectives or adverbs in these sentences. We only know that Melanie is a girl and that Bill ran home, nothing more. Adding an adjective or adverb provides more information: Melanie is a beautiful girl. Bill quickly ran home. Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns, while adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. Beautiful is an adjective that tells us something about Melanie's appearance. Quickly is an adverb that tells us how fast Bill ran home. Adverbs are usually made by adding ly to an adjective: Adjective quick serious slow bad Adverb quickly seriously slowly badly

    There is one adjective with an irregular adverb: good well And several adjectives are the same as their adverbs: fast fast early early late l late

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