Tài liệu ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS

ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
I. Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -ly:
Adjective: Quick serious careful quiet heavy
Abverb: Quickly seriously carefully quietly heavily
Adjective: Fluent special continuos frequent happy
Abverb: Fluently specially continuosly frequently happily
Adjective: nervous perfect bad complete successful
Abverb: nervously perfectly badly completely successfully
Examples:
The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident.
Our holiday was too short. The time went very quickly.
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in –ly,for example:
Lovely lonely lively silly friendly elderly
II. Compare the adverbs and the adjectives in the sentence below:
Adjective + noun
Linking verb + adjective (especially be)
Tom is a careful driver.
We didn’t go out because the heavy rain.
Please be quiet.
I as disappointed that the exam result was so bad.
Why do you look so serious?
She speaks perfect Englih.
Adjective+noun
Compare:
Tom looked sad when I saw him.
Ordinary verb + adverb
Be + adverb + adjective
Tom drove carefully a long the road.
We didn’ go out because it was raining heavily.
Please speak quietly.
I was disappointed that I did so badly in the exam.

Why do you take me seriously?
She speaks English perfectly.
Verb+object+adverb
Tom looked at me sadly.
III. We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs. For example:
Resonably cheap (adverb + adjective)
Terribly sorry (adverb + adjective)(very)
Incredibly quickly (adverb + adverb)
Examples:
It’s a reasonably cheap restaurant and the food is extremely good.
Tom learns language incredibly quickly.
The examination was surprisingly easy.
I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t mean to push you.
We can also use an adverb before a past participle (injured,organised,written…)
Two people were seriously injured in the accident.
The meeting was very badly organised.
Note:-Incredibly: unbelievably
Linking Verbs
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
ĐỘNG TỪ LIÊN KẾT- LINKING VERBS
{Liên động từ (linking verb).}
ó một nhóm các động từ đặc biệt có chức năng nối giữa chủ ngữ và vị ngữ tính từ. Không
giống các động từ khác, chúng không thể hiện hành động. Do vậy chúng được bổ nghĩa bởi
tính từ chứ không phải phó từ. Người ta gọi chúng là liên động từ (linking verbs). Đó là
những động từ ở bảng sau:
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be appear feel become seem look remain sound smell stay taste
Linking Verbs còn được biết đến đơn giản như là các động từ chỉ nhận thức tri giác bổ nghĩa
trực tiếp cho chủ ngữ, theo sau luôn là 1 tính từ.
Linking verbs Examples

Be Ex: She is happy
Alice is now a worker
Become They become sad when the news comes
He is determined to become a professor
Children become tired quite easily.
They were sorry to see us leave.
Remain He remains loyal to his boss even when the company goes into bankruptcy
There remains a big church right in the middle of the village
Stay We stay healthier when we eat more vegetables
Appear She appeared sad at hearing that her father passed away
Seem Nobody seems satisfied with his current job
Sound That sounds a good idea
It sounds terrible
Feel All of us feel distressed when we are sacked unreasonably
Mary feels bad about her test grade.
Look He looked angry than ever once he knew his child committed crime
Lucy looks radiant in her new dress.
Smell The cat smelt odorous after it swam in a dirty lake
The soup tastes good.
The flowers smell sweet.
The flowers she bought yesterday smell fragrant
Taste His food tastes fabulous
The soup tastes good.
Grow The weather grows colder and colder everyday
Turn She turned sicker because of hard work for the whole month
Get They get indignant at realizing that he is a robber
Liên từ có các tính chất:
• Không diễn đạt hành động mà diễn đạt trạng thái hoặc bản chất sự việc.
• Đằng sau chúng phải là tính từ chứ không phải là phó từ.
• Không được chia ở thể tiếp diễn dù dưới bất cứ thời nào.

Be, become, remain còn có thể đứng trước một cụm danh từ chứ không chỉ tính từ:
They remained sad even though I tried to cheer them up. (adjective)
Linking Verbs
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
He remained chairman of the board despite the opposition. (noun)
Children often become bored at the meetings. (adjective)
She become class president after a long campaign. (noun)
Mary will be happy when she hears the good news. (adjective)
Ted will be a bridegroom this year. (noun)
Feel, look, smell và taste cũng có thể là ngoại động từ khi nó có tân ngữ trực tiếp. Trong trường hợp
đó, nó trở thành một động từ mô tả hành động thực sự chứ không còn là một linking verb và do đó
nó được bổ nghĩa bởi phó từ chứ không phải tính từ. Chúng được phép chia ở thì tiếp diễn.
Exercise - Adjective or Adverb
Write down the correct form of the word in brackets (adjective or adverb).
1. Tom is (slow) ________________. He works ________________.
2. Sue is a (careful) ________________girl. She climbed up the ladder ________________.
3. The dog is (angry) ________________. It barks ________________.
4. He acted (excellent) ________________. He's an ________________actor.
5. They learn English (easy) ________________. They think English is an ________________language.
6. Max is a (good) ________________singer. He sings ________________.
7. It's (awful) ________________cold today. The cold wind is ________________.
8. Dogs rely on their noses as they can smell (extreme / good) ________________. If that is true, why
does dog food smell so (terrible) ________________?
9. The little boy looked (sad) ________________. I went over to comfort him and he looked at me
________________.
10.I tasted the soup (careful) ________________but it tasted (wonderful) ________________.
11.Niagara Falls form a ________________ border between the United States and Canada.
(natural/naturally)
12.Tourists visit this place ________________ (frequently/ frequent) .
13.The Falls are very________________ (noisy/ noisily)

14.So you must speak ________________ or nobody can understand you. (loudly/loud)
15.Many years ago, the Iroquois tribe lived here________________ (peacefully/ peaceful)
16.He is a ________________boy. (clever)
17.He is tired because he has worked ________________. (hard)
18.He isn’t tired because he has ________________worked. (hard)
19.She is a ________________girl. (quiet)
20.She went to bed ________________. (quiet)
21.He is not a good student but he writes ________________. (good)
22.You should speak more ________________. (soft)
23.The children behaved ________________. (bad)
24.The brave men fought ________________. (brave)
25.They lived together ________________. (happy)
26.She looks ________________. (pretty)
27.That milk tastes ________________. (sour)
28.I don’t know ________________where they live. (exact)
Linking Verbs
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
29.She turned ________________. (pale)
30.This brown fur feels ________________. (soft)
31.These children are ________________at English. (good)
32.Your brother ________________works at all. (hard)
33.Ann ________________had an accident last Sunday. (near)
34.Have you been to the cinema ________________. (late)
35.Mary always dresses ________________. (beautiful)
36.Yes, it was raining ________________for two hours. (heavy)
37.He has painted it ________________. (nice)
38.What a vworker he is! (quick)
39.He is always very ________________. (polite)
40.He is often ________________. (nervous)
41.Arthur ________________rode back to the inn. (quick)

42.They saw a ________________butterfly on a rose. (beautiful)
43.When the teacher heard about the missing book he said ________________:"You should be more
careful." (angry)
44.When he told him the truth, he was ________________. (quiet)
45."This wound looks ________________", the doctor said. (bad)
46.The boys played so ________________that they won the tournament. (good)
47.He was so busy with his new computer that he ____________had time to help his mother. (hard)
48."Go and have a rest. You shouldn’t work so ________________." (hard)
49.From the top of the mountain he could see ________________across the countryside. (far)
50.What a ________________picture! (beautiful)
51.Arthur fought ________________and they won the battle. (good)
52."I love you", Camilla said in a ________________voice. (soft)
53.The maid shut the door ________________. (quiet)
54.They could hear a ________________cry. (terrible)
55.Suddenly he woke up because the phone rang ________________. (loud)
56.Jane opened the door ________________. (careful)
57.I like driving ________________. (fast)
58.She spoke to me very ________________. (soft)
59.Paul lay in bed ________________. (quiet)
60.He tasted the various kinds of tea ________________. (careful)
61.Jane opened the box ________________. (careful)
62.Jim turned the book upside down ________________. (quick)
63.It is raining ________________. (heavy)
64.She dresses ________________. (beautiful)
65.Tom looked at my lunch ________________. (hungry)
66.Please, drive ________________. (careful)
67.He didn’t sleep ________________. (good)
68.We didn't hurry. So we walked ________________. (slow)
69.New York is a ________________city. (big)
70.He won the race because he drove ________________. (good)

71.It was ________________for me to come. (impossible)
72.Mary jumped up ________________. (happy)
Linking Verbs
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
73.She worked all the day. She feels ________________. (tired)
74.She dresses ________________. (pretty)
75.She came home ________________. (late)
76.He didn't have an accident because he's an ________________driver. (excellent)
77.Sam is good at sports. He always runs ________________. (fast)
78.His father is a manager. He works very ________________. (hard)
79.He won a prize. He is very ________________. (happy)
80.She felt ________________. So she stayed at home. (ill)
81.The weather was ________________. It was cold all the time. (bad)
82.The exercise wasn't difficult. So we did it ________________. (easy)
83.The soup is great. It tastes ________________. (wonderful)
84.He always greets ________________. (friendly)
85.Today she skates ________________. (good)
86.The party was ________________. (wonderful)
87.The house seems to be so ________________without you. (empty)
88.Fish and chips taste ________________. (fantastic)
89.She drives ________________. (careful)
90.She is a nice girl. She always answers ________________. (polite)
91.I am ________________tired. (terrible)
92.The man drove too ________________. (fast)
93.She sings ________________. (good)
94.Mr Jones wrote the letter ________________. (quick)
95.The ________________film was over at o'clock. (boring)
96.We ran to school ________________yesterday. (quick)
97.I have learned very ________________to pass the exam. (hard)
98.Five cars were ________________damaged. (heavy)

99.Please read the instructions ________________. (careful)
100. The bus driver was ________________. (angry)
101. His answer came ________________. (surprising)
102. Tom looked at my dinner ________________. (hungry)
103. Nobody is ________________. (perfect)
104. We played some ________________games. (exciting)
105. They talked to him ________________. (friendly)
106. She always works ________________. (careful)
107. Ann often behaves ________________in school. (bad)
108. He is often very ________________. (nervous)
109. He works very ________________. (good)
110. This steak tastes ________________. (great)
111. She looked at me ________________. (angry)
112. She looks ________________. (pretty)
113. They skate ________________. (good)
114. He was very ________________that he won the race. (happy)
115. That sounds ________________. (great)
116. The doctor felt his leg ________________. (gentle)
117. There was a ________________storm yesterday night . (heavy)
Linking Verbs