Universidad Nacional de Crdoba

Facultad de Lenguas
PRCTICA GRAMATICAL

Adjectives and Adverbs with the Same Form

Prof. M. Candelaria Luque C.

OVERVIEW
OBJECTIVES OF THIS CLASS
LEAD IN
PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY
PRACTICE
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
CONSULTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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OBJECTIVES OF THIS CLASS

By the end of this class, students should:
a) have activated and recycled their theoretical knowledge of the use of
adjectives and adverbs in English.
b) be able to identify the semantic and syntactic differences between
adjectives and adverbs.
c) be able to produce meaningful and grammatical sentences using
adjectives and adverbs with the same form.

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LEAD IN
Complete the chart about adjectives and adverbs using your previous
knowledge and the given examples.

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

They can modify:

They can modify:

_____________

_____________

FUNCTION He owns a house in a______________ Andrew ___________________________

___________________

_____________

_____________

My house is a

The

students

_____________________.

_________________

were

_____________

Theyre

playing

____________________

_____________

________________, she couldnt think

of another excuse.
They can be found:

They can be found:

SENTENCE There
POSITION

___________________
was

___________________

no ___________, not everybody agreed.

______________________

___________________

The

Thats perfectly _________________

The

idea

from

children

are

playing

___________

___________________
came

___________________

___________________

the We ______________ to London in

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____________

May.

_______________

The

train

______________________late.
She ___________________ kind to me.

PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY
Read the following sets of sentences and identify the part of speech of the
words in bold. Justify your answer orally.

Tom is in his late 20s.

__________________________

Its been a hard day for Peter.

__________________________
I can highly recommend the book. 1
__________________________
You can eat free in my restaurant whenever you like.
__________________________
I havent been to the theatre much lately. 1

__________________________

She looked at him sharply. 1

__________________________

They looked down from the high window.

__________________________
You can speak freely I wont tell anyone what you say. __________________________

Her autobiography was written late in her life.

__________________________

Ive hardly got any clean clothes left. 1

__________________________

The

government

will

be

free

to

pursue

its

economic

policies.

__________________________
His nose was thin and sharp.
__________________________
Throw the ball as high as you can.1
__________________________
I trained really hard for the marathon. 1

__________________________

Can you be there at six oclock sharp? 1

__________________________

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From Practical English Usage. Swan, M. 2005,24-27.

PRACTICE
a) Look up the following words in the dictionary. Copy one sentence in
which the word has been used as an adjective and another one in which it
has been used as an adverb.
alike
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)______________________________________________________________________
_
full-time
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)______________________________________________________________________
_
pretty
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)_______________________________________________________________________
well
1)_______________________________________________________________________
2)_______________________________________________________________________
weekly
1)_______________________________________________________________________
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2)_______________________________________________________________________
b) Read the text and complete it with the words from the list. You can use
each word twice.
early

long

fast

quick

hard

right

straight

Matthew and Laura were really different. Laura was Spanish. Matthew was
English. He was extremely interested in cricket. She wasnt. Laura had long
____________ hair. Matthew had short, curly hair.
One day, Matthew invited her to watch a cricket match with him. Cricket isnt
a very ____________ game and it is a ____________ game to understand. It had been a
____________ day for Laura. She had a headache because she had been working too
____________. She wanted to catch an ____________ train and go ____________ home.
Matthew didnt want to leave the match ____________. He wanted to watch it
____________ to the end. Matthew thought it wasnt the ____________ time to leave. He
had to think ____________ what was he going to do? He needed a ____________
answer. He found some aspirin in his pocket. You dont need to go home. Here,
take some aspirin ____________. We wont stay ____________, I promise. Just another
two hours.

Adapted from English Grammar in Steps. Bolton, D., and N. Goodey

1996,243.

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITY
What would you say in these situations? React to them using the words in
brackets as adverbs and as adjectives.
1) You are studying and you cannot concentrate because your teenage sisters are
quarrelling. (loud)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________

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2) A classmate gives you an exercise for you to check and you think the answers
are correct. (right)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
3)Your mother wants to know whether youve tidied up your room. You forgot to do
it. (clean)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
4) Your little brothers are shouting and you are talking on the phone. (quiet)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
5)A friend of yours tells you that her bike cost her only $30. (cheap)
___________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________

CONSULTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biber, D., S. Conrad, and G. Leech. (2002) Longman Student Grammar of Spoken
and Written English. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.
Bolton, D., and N. Goodey (1996) English Grammar in Steps. London: Richmond
Publishing.
Collins

Cobuild

Advanced

Learners

English

Dictionary

(2003)

Glasgow:

HarperCollins Publishers.
Collins Cobuild English Grammar (1990) London: W. Collins Sons and Co Ltd.
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Murphy, R. (1985) English Grammar in Use. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University

Press.
Swan, M. (2005) Practical English Usage Third Edition Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Thomson, A.J. and A.V. Martinet. (1980) A Practical English Grammar Third Edition.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.

He owns a house in a neighbouring village.

My house is a small one.
Andrew answered politely.
The students were really nervous.
They re playing unusually fast.
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Unfortunately, she couldnt think of another excuse.

There was no clear answer.
I remember the main points in her speech.
[only before noun]
[A]
ADJ n
Thats perfectly clear.
Quiet! The children are asleep.
[not before noun]
[F]
v-link ADJ

ADJ after v

The idea came from the students involved.

There are bargains galore in the sales.
[only after noun]
[after n]
n ADJ
However, not everybody agreed.
The children are playing upstairs.
We usually go to London in May.
The train will probably be late.
She was always kind to me.

ADJECTIVES
-al political, reciprocal

ADVERBS
-ward(s) homeward(s),

-ate designate, appropriate

afterward(s)

-ed

-wise piecewise, otherwise

surprised, determined

-ent different, persistent

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-fuluseful, beautiful
-ing interesting, thrilling
-ish childish, bookish
-ive effective, active
-less smokeless, motionless
-like catlike, boxlike
-ous continuous, serious
-some troublesome,
awesome
-worthy trustworthy
-ablecapable, lovable

-ly

-ly

weekly

friendly, motherly,

really, effectively,

weekly

no suffix soon, here, fast,

no suffix new, good, fast,

clean

clean

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