G Adjectives and adverbs a) When to use adjectives and adverbs Adjectives and adverbs can make texts more interesting, more informative and livelier. Adjective or adverb? How to use them Undoubtedly, Romeo and Juliet is the best known of Shakespeare’s plays. It starts very dramatically with a fierce fight between some servants of the greatest families in Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, who are deadly enemies. Later, Romeo, a Montague, meets Juliet, the beautiful daughter of the Capulets, at a ball. They fall in love immediately. In the most famous scene in the play, Romeo waits under Juliet’s balcony and they arrange a secret marriage. They are extremely happy. But this happiness is not to last. • Adjectives express what someone or something is like. They can be used attributively, i.e. before or after a noun (a fierce fight), or predicatively, i.e. as part of the predicate (They are … happy.) • Adverbs express the way something happens or is done. (They fall in love immediately.) Adverbs can modify verbs (It starts … dramatically.), adjectives (extremely happy) or other adverbs (very dramatically). • Adverbs like undoubtedly, obviously, of course, etc. can comment on a whole sentence: Undoubtedly, Romeo and Juliet is … . b) Comparisons of adjectives and adverbs Regular comparative and superlative forms Irregular comparative and superlative forms Adjectives: big, bigger, biggest expensive, more expensive, most expensive Adverbs: fast, faster, fastest clearly, more clearly, most clearly good/well – better – best bad/badly – worse – worst many – more – most much – more – most little – less – least G 1 1 You can find these topics in the section “Grammar for reference” in Prime Time 5 (978-3-209-12797-6). Grammar for reference (2) Overview Prime Time 51 Chapter Page G 1 Present forms 154 G 2 Future forms 155 G 3 Past forms 156 G 4 Adjectives 157 G 5 Modal verbs 158 G 6 Adverbs of manner and degree 160 G 7 Indirect speech 162 G 8 The passive voice 162 G 9 Adverbial clauses 163 G 10 Defining and non-defining relative clauses 164 G 11 Conditional clauses 164 Prime Time 6 Chapter Page G 1 Adjectives and adverbs 168 G 2 Tense overview 170 G 3 Non-finite verb forms 172 G 4 Modal verbs 174 G 5 The passive voice 175 G 6 Direct and indirect (reported) speech 176 G 7 Relative clauses 177 G 8 Conditional clauses 177 G 9 Sentences with adverbial clauses 178 G 10 Linking sentence parts with gerunds and participles 178 168 Grammar for reference (2) Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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