1. Прилагательные и наречия
Adjectives and Adverbs

2. English Adjectives

3. Прилагательные в английском языке употребляются:
adjective + noun (nice day/
blue eyes)
adjective + noun
It's a nice
day today.
Ann has got blue
eyes.
There's a very old
church in this village.
Do you like Italian
food?
I don't speak any foreign
languages.
There are some beautiful yellow
flowers in the garden.

4. The adjective is before the noun:
They live in a modern house. (not 'a house modern')
The endings of adjectives do not change:
a different place different places (not 'differents')

5. be (am/is/are/was/were etc.) + adjective:
The weather is nice today.
Those flowers are very beautiful.
A: Can you close the window, please?
B: Why? Are you cold?
The film wasn't very good. It was boring.
Please be quiet. I'm reading.

6. look/feel/smell/taste/sound + adjective
You look tired.' 'Yes, I feel tired too.‘
George told me about his new job. It sounds
interesting.
Don't cook that meat. It doesn't smell good.

7. Air dangerous fresh interesting languages person
1 The words in the box are adjectives (black/foreign etc.) or nouns (air/job etc.). Use an adjective and a noun to complete each sentence.
Air dangerous fresh interesting languages person
black expensive holiday job long photograph sharp
clouds foreign hotels knife old problem serious
Jack doesn't speak any foreign languages.
Look at those in the sky! It's going to rain.
She works very hard and she's very tired. She needs a
I enjoy talking to her. She's an
Fire-fighting is a
Can you open the window? We need some
This is an of Tom — he looks very different now.
I've got a I hope you can help me.
I need a to cut these onions.
They've got a lot of money - they always stay at
black clouds
long holiday
interesting person
dangerous job
fresh air
old photograph
serious problem
sharp knife
expensive hotels

8. English Adverbs

9. easy —»easily heavy —» heavily
He ate his dinner very quickly. Suddenly the shelf fell down.
adjective + -ly
adjective quick bad sudden careful heavy
adverb quickly badly suddenly carefully heavily etc.
easy —»easily heavy —» heavily

10. Adverbs tell you how something happens or how somebody does something:
It's raining heavily.
Adverbs tell you how something happens or how somebody does something:
The train stopped suddenly.
I opened the door slowly.
Please listen carefully.
I understand you perfectly.

11. adjective adverb Compare: Sue is very quiet. - Be careful!
but Sue speaks very quietly. (not: 'speaks very quiet')
- Be careful!
Listen carefully!
(not 'listen careful')
- It was a bad game.
Our team played badly.

12. fast hard late early - These words are adjectives and adverbs:
Ben is a fast runner. Ben can run fast. (not 'fastly')
Her job is very hard. She works very hard. (not 'hardly')
The bus was late/early. I went to bed late/early.
good (adjective) —» well (adverb):
Her English is very good She speaks English very well.
(not 'speak English very good')
It was a good game Our team played well.
But well is also an adjective (= not ill, in good health):
- 'How are you?' 'I'm very well, thank you. And you?'