Adjectives and Adverbs

  Adjectives (quick, careful, nice, beautiful, ...) tell us about a noun.

We use adjectives before nouns and after some verbs, specially be:

- Tom is a careful driver.
- We didn’t go out because of the heavy rain.
- Please be quiet.
- I was disappointed that my exam results were so bad. 

- Tom drove carefully along the narrow road.
- We didn’t go out because it was raining heavily.
- Please speak quietly.
- I was disappointed that I did so badly in the exam.

 Adverbs (quickly, carefully, nicely, beautifully, ...) tell us about a verb.
An adverb tells us how somebody does something or how something happens:

  We also use adjectives after the verbs look/feel/sound/taste/smell:
- Why do you always look so serious?

  We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs:
- reasonably cheap
- terribly sorry
- incredibly quickly

* You know that the regular way of building an adverb from an adjective is
to add a suffix -ly. However, there is one irregular adverb: good - well 

* Did you know that the words "Fast/hard/late" are both adjectives 
and adverbs?

            
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