{"id":57,"date":"2022-05-20T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecc-guidetowriting\/chapter\/adjectives-and-adverbs\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T21:09:04","slug":"adjectives-and-adverbs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-ecc-guidetowriting\/chapter\/adjectives-and-adverbs\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Adjectives and Adverbs","rendered":"Introduction to Adjectives and Adverbs"},"content":{"raw":"\nAdjectives and adverbs describe things. For example, compare the phrase \"the bear\" to \"the harmless&nbsp;bear\" or the phrase \"run\" to \"run slowly.\"\n\nIn&nbsp;both of these cases, the adjective (<em>harmless<\/em>) or adverb (<em>slowly<\/em>) changes how we understand the phrase. When you first read the word&nbsp;<em>bear<\/em>, you probably didn't&nbsp;imagine a harmless&nbsp;bear. 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When you saw&nbsp;the word&nbsp;<em>run<\/em> you probably didn&#8217;t&nbsp;think of it as something done slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Adjectives and adverbs&nbsp;modify other words: they change our understanding of things.<\/p>\n<p>For a catchy introduction to these words in song, watch the following videos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-1\" title=\"Adjectives Song - Educational Music Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c_TmWClYse0?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"oembed-2\" title=\"Adverb Song - Educational Music Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQPDk_fMcs0?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-57\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Adjectives and Adverbs. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">All rights reserved content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Rock and Roll Adverbs - Adverb Song - Grammar Rock. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: TheGrammarheads. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FQPDk_fMcs0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/FQPDk_fMcs0<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em>All Rights Reserved<\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Standard YouTube License<\/li><li>Hey! 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