1. ADVERB +
ADJECTIVE
Raziel Antonio
Brayan Estrella
Brito Israel

2. DEFINITIONS
 Adjectives are words that describe nouns or
pronouns. They may come before the word they
describe (That is a cute puppy.) or they may follow the
word they describe (That puppy is cute.).
 Adverbs are words that modify everything but nouns
and pronouns. They modify adjectives, verbs, and
other adverbs. A word is an adverb if it answers how,
when, or where.

3. EXAMPLES:
 She thinks slow/slowly. Slowly answers how she
thinks.
We performed bad/badly. Badly answers how we
performed.
She thinks fast/fastly. Fast may be either an adjective
or an adverb. In this example, fast answers how she
thinks. There is no such word as fastly.
 When comparing, don’t drop the -ly. Simply add more
or less.
Example:
He speaks more slowly than his brother.

4. EXAMPLES:
 Rule: English grammar has one tricky caveat that seems like an
exception to these easy rules: If the verb is one of these four
senses—taste, smell, look, feel—don’t ask how. Instead, ask if the
sense verb is used actively. If so, attach the -ly. If the sense verb is
not used actively, which is more common, don’t attach -ly.
Examples:
Roses smell sweet/sweetly. Do roses actively smell with noses? No,
so no -ly.
The woman looked angry/angrily. Is the woman actively looking with
eyes? No, only her appearance is being described.
She feels bad/badly about the news. She is not feeling with fingers
so no -ly.
She feels bad/badly since burning her fingers. She feels with her
fingers here so the adverb (-ly form) is used.