ADJECTIVE VS

ADVERB
WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun (someone

or something)

An adjective comes before noun:

We made slow progress

(P)              (Adj)  (N)  

He is an amazing cook
(P)              (Adj)        (N)
It can also comes after verbs that describe someone
or something (e.g) "to be" , "become", "get" (called
linking verbs) or a sense verb (smell, taste, feel, look,
seem)

-Our progress was/seemed/felt slow

              (N)                                      (Adj)
-His food tastes/smells/looks amazing
         (N)                                       (Adj)
 PARTICIPLE (PARTICIPIAL) ADJECTIVES

Some adjectives are formed out of the present and past

participles of verbs.

To amaze(V): amazing(Adj Present.P)/amazed (Past.P)

To interest(V): interisting/interested

"ing" adjectives describe the person or object

-He is an interesting person. His stories are interisting

"ed" adjectives describe feelings and attitudes 

-We are interested in him and his stories
 1 WHAT'S AN ADVERB?

An adverb describes a verb(an action), an adjective, another adverb, or a

whole sentence.

-We progressed slowly. (describing a verb)

            (V)             (adv)

-He is an incredibly amazing cook. (describing an adjective)

                     (adv)            (adj)

-He cooks really amazingly  (describing an adverb)

                    (adv)      (adv)

-Interestingly, he comes from England. (describing the whole sentence)

    (adv)
FORMULATION

As you can see, to change an adjective into an

adverb, we usually add "-ly" to it.

-slow ----> slowly

-interesting-----> interistingly

if the adjectives end in "y", change it to "i" before add

"ly"

-happy-----> happily
-lucky------> luckily
 THERE ARE A FEW COMMON
ADVERBS THAT ARE NOT
FORMULATED WITH LY:

-good: well
-fast: fast
hard: hard
soon: soon
late: late
far: far
long: long
short: short
 ALSO THERE  ARE A FEW WORDS  ENDING IN "LY"
 THAT ARE NOT ADVERBS BUT ADJECTIVES

-lovely (She is lovely)-----> She welcomed us in a lovely way

-friendly
-lonely
-silly

THE FOLLOWING ENDING in "ly" IS BOTH adjective and

adverb: (weekly, monthly, daily, yearly)
- It's a weekly magazine
              (adj)       (n)

- I receive it weekly
 COMMON MISTAKES  (1)

A common mistake is to use an adverb after linking or sense verbs:

-The situation seemed unusual (Not : unusually)
                          (Link.V)

-Your garden looks beautiful. (Not: beautifully)

                        (Link.V)

Although the adjectives "unusual" and "beautiful" are not next to the
noun, they describe the nouns(situation and garden), not the verbs
(seemed and looks)
 COMMON MISTAKE (2)

Another common mistake is using the "ing" form to describe

someone's attitude or feelings

-Jane is bored by his stories. (Not: is boring) 

because his stories are boring not Jane.

-They were surprised by the news. (Not: were surprising)

because the news was surprising
 COMMON MISTAKE (3)

As you will remember the words "hard", "late" and "short" are both
adjectives and adverbs. However the words, "hardly", "lately", and
"shortly" also exist but with a different meaning.

- Hardly= almost not

I hardly know him= I don' t really know him

-Hard
He is a hard worker-----> He works hard (hard describing the verb works)
-lately = recently
I haven't seen her lately

If you want to use late as an adverb, keep

it the work "late".

-The bus was late

-I arrived home late
-shortly= soon
I'll call you back shortly= I'll call you back
soon

If you want to use short as an adverb,

keep it the work "short".

-It was a short speech