Adverb and Adjective

August 17, 2010
Adverb and Adjective
Adverb
Adverb is word that adds more information about circumstances, manner (e.g. quickly), place (e.g. campus), time (e.g. every day), and so on. Generally, there are three basic kinds of Adverbs. They are: adverb of manner, adverb of place, adverb of degree and adverb of time. Functions of adverb are they explain/qualify verbs, they explain adjectives, they qualify other adverbs or the entire grammatical construction.
1.Adverb of Manner
Adverb of manner is word that tells us how somebody does something or how something happens. Many adverbs of manner are derived from adjectives. The adverb seriously, for instance, is derived from the adjective serious.
Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -ly; for example, careful becomes carefully, careless become carelessly. However, not all words ending in –ly are adverbs. The words like friendly, lively, elderly, brotherly, fatherly, neighborly lovely, and silly are not adverbs but adjectives. Notice that some words are both adjectives and adverbs. They are: fast, hard, long, and late. The word lately is not the adverb of late, and hardly is not the adverb of hard.
Examples:
•He can communicate with his patients very well
•They should take exercise regularly
•It is an extensively popular method of curing cancer
•The director of the hospital is a highly arrogant
•He is breathing heavily after his regular morning exercise.

2.Adverb of Place
Adverb of Place is used to answer the question where about the action of the verb. It comes after the verb. Common adverbs of place are away, Bandung, far, far away, here, home, there, and so forth. If there is no object adverb of place is directly placed after the verb; for example, he went away. But, if there is an object adverb of place usually comes after verb and any other words in the sentence.
Example:
•She did Chemotherapy there

3.Adverb of Degree
Adverb of degree usually put before adjective and adverb of manner. Such as fairly, quite, rather, very, extremely, too, enough, almost, etc.
Examples:
•The nurses are working very hard
•The employee does the work quite lazily
•Doctor is rather tired

4.Adverb of Time
Adverbs of time usually follow the verb; however, they may also introduce the sentence for reasons of style or for emphasis. Adverbs of time are early, every day, late, Monday, next, today, yesterday, tomorrow, and so on.
Examples:
•He plans to take a rest every day because he wants to decrease the stressful conditions in his work.
•Mrs. Rina was breast-feeding her baby every morning

5.Order of Adverbs
When different adverb types occur together, the order is usually manner, place, and time. This order, however, may be changed into manner, place or time, place, manner for emphasis.
Adjective
An adjective is a word that modifies or explains a noun or pronoun. There are seven types of adjectives. They are:
1.Descriptive Adjective
This adjective describes the quality of noun or pronoun. Such as a sick woman, youthful bodies, a prominent doctor, slim girl.
2.Adjective of Quantity/distributive Adjective
Adjective of quantity shows the definite or indefinite number or nouns or pronouns. For examples: fifty patients, one doctor, a few nurses, many pills, etc.
3.Possessive Adjective
This adjective shows possession of something by someone. Examples: his room, their clothes, our patients, her doctor
4.Proper Adjective
Proper adjective indicates the origin of someone or something. Such adjective is written with capital letters. Examples: Chinese medicine, Indonesian ginseng, Indian curry, English tea, American physician.
5.Compound Adjective
These adjectives consist of several words to express a quality of things or persons. They are called adjectives because their function to describe a noun or pronoun. Examples: life-threatening disease, baby-care centre, on-the-spot report, round-the-clock care, hit-and—run driver.

6.Demonstrative Adjective
Demonstrative adjective used for limiting noun or person shown by the adjective. Examples: the egg, an egg, a woman, the two men, every man, each a gun, etc.
7.Verbal Adjective
Other commonly used adjectives are the present and past participles (verb + ed and verb + ing forms). Such adjectives are also called “verbal adjectives” because they are derived from verbs but function as adjectives. These adjectives are generally used before the nouns they describe. Examples: trained nurses, drinking water, written statement, injected insulin, boiled eggs, etc.

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