{"id":81,"date":"2017-07-20T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/differences-between-adjectives-and-adverbs\/"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T16:28:26","slug":"differences-between-adjectives-and-adverbs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-geneseo-styleguide2\/chapter\/differences-between-adjectives-and-adverbs\/","title":{"raw":"Differences between Adjectives and Adverbs","rendered":"Differences between Adjectives and Adverbs"},"content":{"raw":"<p>As we've learned, adjectives and adverbs act in similar but different roles. A lot of the time this difference can be seen in the structure of the words:\n<\/p><ul><li>A <b>clever<\/b> new idea.<\/li>\n \t<li>A <b>cleverly<\/b> developed idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul><em>Clever<\/em> is an adjective, and\u00a0<em>cleverly<\/em> is an adverb. This adjective +\u00a0<em>ly<\/em> construction is a short-cut to identifying adverbs.\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/b4KybdSi1Fc\n\nWhile -<em>ly<\/em> is helpful, it's not a universal rule.\u00a0Not all words that end in\u00a0-<em>ly<\/em> are adverbs: <em>lovely<\/em>, <em>costly<\/em>, <em>friendly, <\/em>etc. Additionally,\u00a0not all adverbs end in <em>-ly<\/em>:\u00a0<i>here, there, together, yesterday, aboard, very,<\/i><i>\u00a0almost<\/i>, etc.\n\nSome words can function both as\u00a0an adjective and as and adverb:\n<ul><li><em>Fast<\/em> is an adjective in \"a <b>fast<\/b> car\" (where it qualifies the noun <i>car<\/i>), but an adverb in \"he drove fast\" (where it modifies the verb <i>drove<\/i>).<\/li>\n \t<li><em>Likely<\/em> is an adjective in \"a likely outcome\" (where it modifies the noun\u00a0<em>outcome<\/em>), but an adverb in \"we will likely go\" (where it modifies the verb\u00a0<em>go<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve learned, adjectives and adverbs act in similar but different roles. A lot of the time this difference can be seen in the structure of the words:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <b>clever<\/b> new idea.<\/li>\n<li>A <b>cleverly<\/b> developed idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Clever<\/em> is an adjective, and\u00a0<em>cleverly<\/em> is an adverb. 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