Adjective and Adverb

by Atika Budhi Utami

Descriptive Adjectives
Adjectives describe nouns.

The houses are dirty.

Adjectives can come before the verb be.

The living room is untidy.

Adjectives can also come before a noun (noun phrase)

It is a nice neighborhood.

Comparative Form of Adjectives

Use adjective + -er for one-syllable adjectives and two-syllable adjectives ending in y. Put than before the person or the thing you are comparing. adjective-er + than

My house is older than my neighbors house. The park in our neighborhood is prettier than the central park.

 Use more/less + adjective for two-syllable adjectives. Put than before a person or a thing you are comparing.
more/less + adjective + than

Living in the suburbs is sometimes more comfortable than living in the centre of a town. Renting a house is less expensive than buying it.

 The adjectives good, bad, and far have irregular forms. good bad far better worse farther/further

Adverb of Manner
Adverbs of manner describe action verbs. They say how or in what manner something happens. The adverb often comes at the end of the sentence.
Most adverbs of manner are formed by adding ly to the adjective adjective + -ly = adverb

Tom is an attentive person. He always speaks and listens attentively to other people.

 Some adverbs of manner have the same form as adjectives.

Shes a fast typist. She types fast. Hes a hard worker. He works hard.
Well is the adverb for the adjective good. Well is also an adjective that means in good health.

Shes a good speaker. She speaks well. I am well, I think.

hungrily excitedly proudly comfortably easily neatly lovingly tactfully carefully quickly impatiently enthusiastically

happily angrily jealously honestly quietly helplessly suspiciously reluctantly carelessly slowly accurately

sadly nervously confusedly gently loudly shyly desperately beautifully politely patiently wisely

Comparative Form of Adverbs

To form comparative form of adverbs that ends in ly, add more before the adverb.

Your brother tidies up his bedroom more neatly than you do.
The adverbs well and badly have irregular comparative forms.

They organize the waste collection well, but we organize it better.

Superlative Forms of Adjective and Adverb

Use the superlative form of adjectives and adverbs to compare three or more people, places, or things.

His medicine garden is the biggest in the neighborhood. He takes care of his plants the most carefully of all.

 To form the superlative of one-syllable adjectives or adverbs, add est to the adjective or adverbs and the before the adjective or adverb.

Our subdistrict is the largest in Cilandak district. He runs the fastest of all.

 To form the superlative of two-syllable or more adjectives or adverbs that end in ly, use the most before the adjective or the adverb.

Environmental problems are the most interesting issue. He speaks the most openly about the problems.

 Some adjectives and adverbs have irregular superlative forms:

Adjective good bad far little ` Adverb well badly far little Comparative better (than) worse (than) farther (than) further (than) less Superlative the best the worst the farthest the furthest the least

After the superlative, you can use a prepositional phrase to identify the group you are talking about.

in the ______ of all