adjectives, adverbs and comparisons

A) Adjectives always come after the noun.

Adjectives describe nouns and usually come before them.

Adjectives always change form in the plural.

Adjectives cannot be used after linking verbs.

Wooden

Exciting

Large

Spanish

Beautiful

Metal

Blue

Old

Red small leather Italian

Italian small leather red

Small red Italian leather

Leather Italian red small

A three-hours delay

A three-hour delay

A three-hourly delay

A three-hour's delay

A rich man owns this house.

The old man is very wise.

The rich live in big houses.

She has a beautiful car.

He bought a wooden old table.

She wore a silk beautiful dress.

They found a small round red stone.

We saw a French amazing painting.

A fantastic big round blue Italian vase

An Italian fantastic round blue big vase

A fantastic blue big round Italian vase

A fantastic big Italian round blue vase

Afraid

Alone

Principal

Glad

This shampoo makes my hair golden.

She bought a gold blouse.

He walked on the gold sand.

He gave her a golden ring.

Only adjectives

Verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or sentences

Only nouns

Only verbs

Yesterday

Very

Here

Quickly

She goes swimming weekly.

He ran fast the race.

They arrived tomorrow.

The lake is deep.

Quickly

Freely

Loudly

Likely

By adding -ing

By adding -ment

By adding -ly

By adding -ness

The music is loudly. / He speaks loudly.

The music is loudly. / He speaks loud.

The music is loud. / He speaks loudly.

The music is loud. / He speaks loud.

She hardly studies for her exams.

He worked hardly all day.

They hardly play music loudly.

The lake is hardly deep.

Slowly

Fairly

Quickly

Free

Happy → Happily

True → Truly

Polite → Politely

Serious → Seriously

He is deeply in love with her.

He arrived late.

She walked quickly.

The treasure was buried deep underground.

Before verbs and after adjectives

After verbs but before adjectives, other adverbs, and participles

Only at the end of a sentence

Only before the main verb

Before the main verb, after the auxiliary verb, or at the end of the sentence

Always before the main verb

Only at the beginning of the sentence

After the subject

She speaks very loudly.

He works late every day.

She finished her homework quickly.

We met them outside the café.

Before the subject

After auxiliary verbs and the verb "to be" but before main verbs

Only at the end of the sentence

Before auxiliary verbs and main verbs

Nearby

Tomorrow

Completely

Always

He soon will inform us about his decision.

He will inform us soon about his decision.

He will soon inform us about his decision.

He will inform soon us about his decision.

Manner – Time – Place

Time – Manner – Place

Place – Manner – Time

Manner – Place – Time

This is fairly good CD, but it's not the best they've made.

This is a fairly good CD, but it's not the best they've made.

This is fairly a good CD, but it's not the best they've made.

This is a fairly a good CD, but it's not the best they've made.

This is quite a good movie.

This is a quite good movie.

This is quite good a movie.

This is a good quite movie.

This machine is quite useless.

This machine is useless quite.

This machine quite is useless.

This machine is quite a useless.

She has a soft rather voice.

She has rather soft a voice.

She has a rather soft voice.

She has rather a soft voice.

Ted's more experienced rather than Alec.

Ted's rather experienced more than Alec.

Ted's more rather experienced than Alec.

Ted's rather more experienced than Alec.

He had pretty nasty a accident the other day.

He had pretty a nasty accident the other day.

He had a pretty nasty accident the other day.

He had a nasty pretty accident the other day.