Thus he was forced to resign.Understanding the difference between an adjective and an adverb can be confusing. In the above sentence, poorly answers the question how the teacher is teaching.Īdverbs has many different types, the most important of which are adverb of time, place, frequency, manner and reason. An adverb mostly carries an ly at their end as a suffix but it is not true for all adverbs.Īn adverb answers questions like when, where, how and how much about a sentence.
In this sentence, teaching is the verb and poorly is an adverb which is describing the quality of the verb. An adverb describes everything for a verb which an adjective describes for a noun. Some describes the little quantity of soup she had so it is an adjective of quantity.Īn adverb is also among the eight parts of speech but it identifies and defines verb in a sentence rather than noun. Here, wet is a demonstrative adjective, great is an adjective of quality whereas four is an adjective of number.įor adjective of quantity see this example If we take into account the above examples, three of the four adjective types can be found in the sentence: In this example, the adjectives great, four and spectacular describe the nouns magician and tricks and also answers questions like what kind of magician? And how many tricks?Īn adjective can also be recognized if you keep in mind its four types i.e.: Adjective of quality, Adjective of quantity, Adjective of number and Demonstrative adjective. The great magician showed four spectacular tricks. The difference to note here is that ‘wet’ did not come before the noun but after it.Īnother way of spotting an adjective in a sentence is to understand that an adjective mostly answers questions like how many? Or which? Or what kind? In this sentence, another quality of the bench (noun) is described by the adjective wet. In this simple sentence, the bench is a noun and ‘green’ is the adjective that is defining it. In some sentences, adjective might come after a noun. An adjective usually comes before a noun which can be one of a key character of remembering it but this is not true for every sentence. It describes the quality, identity and features of a noun or a pronoun and helps us get a better understanding of it. Today, I will explain to you in simple high school tongue the real difference between an adjective and an adverb and I will make sure that you won’t forget again ever in your life.Īn adjective is one of the eight parts of speech which define a noun.
They both were somehow similar but still very different and we cannot remember what the difference between them was.
But when it comes to an adjective and an adverb, it is a little hard for us to recall what the real difference between them was. We all learned about the different parts of speech in high school and most of us can easily distinguish between a noun and a verb.
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