what is the defrent between adverbs and adjectives ?

Question

my techer tryed to explain it for me ,but its confuseing to me
can you explain it for me in a simple way, plz

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its clear now

Answer 1

adverds describe verbs and adjectives describe nouns

Answer 2

An adverb usually ends in "ly" (think "quickly") and is describing a verb - adVERB. (The "ly" ending is not true in all circumstances though - if you say, "He runs fast" the word fast is an adverb.) An adverb is describing an action; how one would do something.
jump high
walk slowly
laugh loudly

An adjective is a describing word, but is usually describing a noun (the grass is green; she's a pretty girl; the music is loud).

The easiest thing to do, probably, is to identify the subject and verb in the sentence and then try to determine which is being described.

For instance, in the sentence, "He drives fast." the word 'drives' is a verb, so the word 'fast' is an adverb describing how he drives. You could subsititute a word like 'quickly' or 'rapidly' (something ending in ly) in place of 'fast'.

But in the sentence, "The boy is fast." the word 'is' is the verb; the word 'fast' is describing the boy. You would not say, "the boy is quickly" or another word ending in 'ly' - the boy is the noun being described by an adjective.

I hope this makes sense, and doesn't just confuse you even more!

Answer 3

The difference (note the spelling) is this: Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. Adjectives modify nouns.

Here are some examples. I'll put the ADVERBS and ADJECTIVES in all capital letters.

First, let's look at adverbs:

The man walked QUICKLY to the door.

You see how QUICKLY talks about the way the man walked.

Now, an ADVERB modifying an adjective:

The hall was ENORMOUSLY long.

You see how ENORMOUSLY describes "long."

Now, an adverb modifying an adverb:

She was SIMPLY BEAUTIFULLY dressed.

You see how SIMPLY modifies BEAUTIFULLY.

Now, for adjectives:

He was a TALL man wearing a GREEN coat and a SMALL cap.

You see how TALL modifies man, GREEN modifes coat and SMALL modifies cap.

Find something in the newspaper or a book to read and go through it, identifying the adverbs and adjectives and how each is used, just for practice.

I hope that helped.

Answer 4

An adjective describes a difficulty. Eg: the vehicle is *pink*. My house is *great*. I incredibly have a *gorgeous* female pal. An adverb describes an action. Adverbs many times lead to 'ly', yet no longer constantly. Eg: I walked *slowly*. He examine *on a daily basis*. She reads *nicely*. To make this extra trouble-free to appreciate ... An adjective would answer the question "what's your place like?" (it fairly is massive, it fairly is pink, it fairly is gorgeous etc.) An adverb would answer the question "How did you walk?" (I walked slowly, I walked thoughtfully, I walked nicely etc.)

Answer 5

All proper sentences are made up of nouns and verbs.

A noun is a person, place or thing (you can also use pronouns which are generalizations of a person, place or thing).

A verb is some type of action.

Chicago is windy.

Chicago is the noun and windy is the action.

Chicago is very windy.

VERY is the adverb. It tells you MORE about the action word.

Majestic Chicago is very windy.

Majestic is an adjective telling you more about Chicago, a noun, very is an adverb telling you more about the action word windy.

The Fox jumped.

Fox is the noun, an animal. Jumped is the action word or verb.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.

While quick is a verb and brown is a noun, they serve as telling you more about the fox, so they have value as adjectives.

When something TELLS YOU MORE about the MAIN FOCUS (noun) it can be viewed as an adjective.

jumped is our action word or verb, OVER is the adverb, telling us more (direction) about the jumping.

lazy is an adjective telling us MORE about another NOUN or PRONOUN, dogs.

Some sentences don't have direct action words, but they do have completed thoughts or predicates.

Tom has red hair.

Tom is a noun, red hair is the predicate. Hair, of course, is another noun or pronoun. Red is the modifer.

So, this sentece technically has no verb. Red is a modifier of the predicate. It acts like an adverbial in this position.

Answer 6

The Basic Rules: Adjectives
Adjectives modify nouns. To modify means to change in some way. For example:

"I ate a meal." Meal is a noun. We don't know what kind of meal; all we know is that someone ate a meal.
"I ate an enormous lunch." Lunch is a noun, and enormous is an adjective that modifies it. It tells us what kind of meal the person ate.
Adjectives usually answer one of a few different questions: "What kind?" or "Which?" or "How many?" For example:

"The tall girl is riding a new bike." Tall tells us which girl we're talking about. New tells us what kind of bike we're talking about.
"The tough professor gave us the final exam." Tough tells us what kind of professor we're talking about. Final tells us which exam we're talking about.
"Fifteen students passed the midterm exam; twelve students passed the final exam." Fifteen and twelve both tell us how many students; midterm and final both tell us which exam.
So, generally speaking, adjectives answer the following questions:

Which?
What kind of?
How many?
The Basic Rules: Adverbs
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. (You can recognize adverbs easily because many of them are formed by adding -ly to an adjective, though that is not always the case.) The most common question that adverbs answer is how.

Let's look at verbs first.

"She sang beautifully." Beautifully is an adverb that modifies sang. It tells us how she sang.
"The cellist played carelessly." Carelessly is an adverb that modifies played. It tells us how the cellist played.
Adverbs also modify adjectives and other adverbs.

"That woman is extremely nice." Nice is an adjective that modifies the noun woman. Extremely is an adverb that modifies nice; it tells us how nice she is. How nice is she? She's extremely nice.
"It was a terribly hot afternoon." Hot is an adjective that modifies the noun afternoon. Terribly is an adverb that modifies the adjective hot. How hot is it? Terribly hot.
So, generally speaking, adverbs answer the question how. (They can also answer the questions when, where, and why.)

Answer 7

adverbs modify the action (the verb) and are usually close to the verb-word in that sentence. Try these:
he writes well; paper extremely white

the 1st one "well" defines write
the 2nd one is tricky, it is missing the verb "is" but such a sentence is used that way in talking.

adjective describes a thing in color -- a noun, remember, is a person, place, or thing
The adjective puts a quantity or a quality upon that noun
try these:
wise ruler
red apple
narrow-gage railroad

ruler, apple, railroad -- would be much different without the adjective

Answer 8

What is the difference between adverbs and adjectives?

A very basic answer to this question is:

Adjectives are used to describe nouns.

Two things to note here:

Adjectives usually come immediately before the noun, and not after it as in some other languages.

Adjectives only have one form, i.e. they do not change when describing plural nouns.

Adverbs are used to describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.

EXAMPLE: The boy runs QUICKLY. how is he running? quickly

It is describing the verb.
And adjectives describe a noun.

Answer 9

Adverbs make verbs more interesting. Adjectives improve nouns.

Answer 10

Adjectives and verbs have one point in common and one point that makes them different. The point in common is that they provide extra information. The difference is that they provide different kinds of information. An adjective is placed before the noun, ( e.g. The bright sun shone. [Describing here some characteristic of the sun.] The adverb follows the verb, ( e.g. The sun shone brightly. [ Here the information of the manner, to what degree etc. in explaining the action of the sun.]

Hope this helps. I do understand your confusion. In my teaching I come across the same confusion in many students.

Answer 11

- An Adjective is something like:

fat, thin, ugly, quick, smart, intelligent, round, green...

We use these words to describe nouns:

look at that fat ugly troll.

(or)

Look at that fat ugly green monkey...

- An adverb is used to describe a verb:

She 'quickly' ran to the shop.

He 'immediately' stopped moving.

It 'slowly' crawled up her leg...

Anyway, I hope this was of some help.