Ordering multiple Adjectives?
- Quantity: four, ten, a few, several
- Value / Opinion: delicious, charming, beautiful
- Size: tall, tiny, huge
- Temperature: hot, cold
- Age: old, young, new, 14-year-old
- Shape: square, round
- Color: red, purple, green
- Origin: Swedish, Victorian, Chinese
- Material: glass, silver, wooden
example: They have a lovely old red post-box
Some adverbs have the same form as the adjective
early fast hard high late near straight wrong
with adverbs ending in -ly, what you must use to form the comparative and the superlative?
use ‘more’ to form the comparative and
use ‘most’ to form the superlative.
example:
quietly, more quietly, most quietly
slowly, more slowly, most slowly
Order of adverbs of time?
1: how long 2: how often 3: when
examples:
1 + 2: I work (1) for five hours (2) every day
2 + 3: The magazine was published (2) weekly (3) last year
1 + 2 + 3: She worked in a hospital (1) for two days (2) every week (3) last year
An adverb of manner cannot be put between a verb and its direct object. The adverb must be placed either before the verb or at the end of the clause.
examples:
correct: He ate the chocolate cake greedily.
correct: He greedily ate the chocolate cake.
incorrect: He ate greedily the chocolate cake.
common adverbs of manner are almost always placed directly after the verb?
well, badly, hard, & fast
examples:
He swam well despite being tired.
The rain fell hard during the storm.
Singular Present
I am 1st person
You are 2nd person
He is / she is / it is 3rd person
Singular Past
I was 1st person
You were 2nd person
He/she/it was 3rd person
Plural Present
We are 1st person
You are 2nd person
They are 3rd person
Plural Past
We were 1st person
You were 2nd person
They were 3rd person