TRW Adjective and Adverbs

​Adjectives and Adverbs

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Adjectives describe people or things.

Adverbs describe verbs.

Adjectives and adverbs

• He's a careful driver.

• He drives carefully.

Adjectives

• long - longer - the longest

• nice - nicer - the nicest

• heavy - heavier - the heaviest

• big - bigger - the biggest

• expensive - more expensive - the most expensive

Adjectives

• good - better - the best

• bad - worse - the worst

• far - further - the furthest

Adverbs

• aby utworzyć przysłówek dodaj do przymiotnika końcówkę -ly

• quick - quickly

• easy - easily

• careful - carefully

Multiple Choice

Which is the adjective in the sentence?

The tired boy laid down on the lawn.

• boy

• tired

• down

• lawn

Multiple Choice

Which is the adverb in the sentence?

The cat ran quickly across the big room.

• cat

• big

• quickly

• across

Multiple Choice

These are ...

• documents importants

• important documents

• importants documents

Fill in the Blanks

My new home is

(near) from work than the old one.

Multiple Choice

The house was ________(ugly) than theirs.

• ugly
• uglier
• uglyer
• the ugliest

Multiple Select

Adjectives also take different forms. They tend to have different meanings. Check all the examples that differ in meaning:

• I want to buy her a gold ring / The girls have golden hair.

• The store sells metal beds / I'm not too fond of this metallic color.

• My neighbor is building a stone house. / His stony expression made me uncomfortable.

Multiple Choice

My new shoes are very ________. I wore them for the first time yesterday, and they didn't hurt at all.

• Uncomfortable

• Comfortable

• Comfortably

• Uncomfortably

Multiple Choice

He took the exam quickly and ______, and so he made a lot of mistakes.

• careful

• careless

• carefully

• carelessly

Multiple Choice

Parsons decided that most of the subway tunnel would be constructed using an innovation engineering method known as "cut and cover." Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• innovate engineer

• innovative engineering

• innovate engineering

Multiple Choice

What resulted from this siege was one of the largest humanitarian efforts to date. Pilots who had bombed Berlin relentless during the war were now called upon to deliver food—"Vittles"一as part of the Berlin Airlift. Choose the correct answer. (Hint: This one was on the video.)

• NO CHANGE

• unrelented

• unrelentless

• relentlessly

Multiple Choice

Through the 1920s, waist overalls or jeans we're primary considered work pants. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• primary were

• were primarily

• primarily we’re

Multiple Choice

McClintock believed maize (corn) was idealistically a plant to study because each ear had hundreds of kernels for each with a different set of chromosomes. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• an ideal plant

• an ideally plant

• an idealistic plant

Multiple Choice

This happened after I heard some residents in the community where I now live talk favorable about the landfill. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGES

• more favorable of

• favorably about

• In favor with

Multiple Choice

Similarly, Pei's design for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, echoes the aim of city planners who wished to revitalize the Arts District while announcing Dallas's emergence as an international cultural center. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• international culturally

• internationally culturally

• internationally culture

Multiple Choice

Other tales were exaggeratedly and humorous accounts of harsh bosses and smarter workers, or of trickster animals such as Brer Rabbit and his cousins. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• exaggeratedly humorously

• exaggerated humorously

• exaggerated, humorous

Multiple Choice

Part of the problem is that we all own to many cars. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• way to many

• too much

• too many

Multiple Choice

A portion of the ecosystem had been preserved in 1934 as Everglades National Park, the remainder faced relentless human pressures. Choose the correct answer.

• NO CHANGE

• relentlessly humanly

• human relentlessly

• relentless and humanly