OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR-108 sau đây là giáo trình lý thuyết tiếng anh và bài tập áp dụng từ cơ bản đến nâng cao , nhằm giúp các bạn có thể tự mình ôn tập và củng cố thêm về nền tảng kiến thức môn Anh văn , tự tin đạt kết quả tốt trong kỳ thi ngoại ngữ | OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR 108 ADJECTIVE OR ADVERB 1 A Introduction Vicky like that song that Natasha sang. Rachel Yes it s a nice song. And she sang it nicely too. An adjective nice describes a noun song . An adverb nicely describes a verb sang . The man had a quiet voice. The man spoke quietly. Claire wears expensive clothes. Claire dresses expensively. The runners made a slow start. They started the race slowly. We do NOT say She sang it nice. We can use adverbs in other ways. An adverb like really or very can be combined with an adjective hot o another adverb carefully see Unit 115 . It was really hot in the sun. Andrew checked his work very carefully. An adverb like fortunately or perhaps says something about the whole situation. Fortunately nothing was stolen. Perhaps Sarah is working late. B The ly ending We form many adverbs from an adjective ly. For example politely quickly safely. But there are some special spelling rules. 1 We do not leave out e . nice nicely Exceptions are true truly whole wholly. 2 y ily after a consonant . easy easily lucky luckily Also angrily happily heavily etc. 3 le ly . possible possibly Also comfortably probably reasonably sensibly terribly etc. 4 ic . ically . dramatic dramatically Also automatically scientifically etc. Exception publicly C Looked nice and looked carefully Compare these two structures. LINKING VERB ADJECTIVE ACTION VERB ADVERB Tom was hungry. Paul ate hungrily. The children seemed happy. The children played happily. My soup has got cold. The man stared coldly at us. An adjective can come after a linking verb such as We use an adverb when the verb means that be see Unit 104B . something happens. Some verbs like look taste and appear can be either linking verbs or action verbs. LINKING VERB ADJECTIVE ACTION VERB ADVERB Mike looked angry. He looked carefully at the signature. The medicine tasted awful. Emma tasted the drink nervously. The man appeared to he drunk. A waiter appeared suddenly. page 380 .
