English Grammar - Adjectives & Adverbs

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Today this lesson is for, I can't say the name, Qasim, right here, Qasim Ahmadli.

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I need some pronunciation lessons, but not in English.

I'll teach you the English, you teach me how to say your name.

Anyways, this lesson is for you and everyone else out there listening and watching.

A very, very easy, basic, very important lesson in English grammar, grammar, don't be scared.

It's okay.

I'll help you.

Qasim wanted to know the differences between adjectives and adverbs, okay?

I remember when I was learning this in school, I was confused as well.

And the way that I remember this, one of my teachers taught me a very easy way to figure

this out.

So here's how it goes.

This word contains the word "verbs."

So you can always remember that an adverb describes a verb.

Cool.

So, it's a verb, okay, verb.

A verb is an action word most of the time.

Now, there are verbs that are not really action words called "stative verbs," but do not worry

about those right now.

What we're going to look at are just simple, basic action words or action verbs.

Does anyone know in this sentence where my verb is?

Anyone?

Anyone?

The answer is "ran."

She is my subject, "ran" is my verb.

Uh-oh.

What's this?

Fast, fast, fast.

"Fast" is an adverb.

It tells you how the person did the action, or it describes the verb.

So you can ask yourself, "Hmm, how did she run?"

Oh, she ran fast.

Cool.

Let's look at this sentence.

Can you tell me where the adverb is in this sentence?

"He eats slowly."

Oh, slowly, yes, "slowly" in this sentence is the adverb.

So, this tells me how the subject does the action.

How does he eat?

How does he do the action?

He eats very slowly, okay?

So if you can remember this, adverb describes a verb, or the adverb describes how the action

is done, you're gonna be a lot better off in English grammar.

So once you've got this down, you can think of maybe the opposite if you want, which is

an adjective.

An adjective, there's no verb, an adjective describes a noun.

So then you're thinking, "Oh no, how do I remember what a noun is?"

I remembered it like this.

A noun is three things, a person, a place, or a thing.

This is how I remembered it from when I was a child.

I always say a noun is a person, a place, or a thing.

So an adjective describes a noun.

An adverb describes a verb.

Get it?

Easier now?

So let's look at this sentence.

We have a big, black dog.

Can anyone tell me in this sentence where is my noun?

Is big a noun?

No.

Is black a noun?

No.

Dog is a noun.

So in this sentence, my dog is my noun.

These words big and black describe my noun.

What does the noun look like?

The other thing you have to keep in mind in English is when you're describing something,

we always go shape and then color.

Most languages, I know Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, you guys would say black big dog.

But in English, just to make it more difficult, we change it and we say big black dog.

Just like this one.

Oops, we need a comma here.

In this one, we have a little yellow cat.

Can you tell me where the noun is in this sentence?

Meow.

Anyone?

Meow.

Cat.

Good job.

So cat is my noun.

Tell me what the cat looks like.

The cat is little and it's yellow.

Yellow cat.

How interesting.

So again, in English, we always go size and then the color and then the actual noun.

The other thing that's very important is where in the sentence you actually put the adverb

and the adjective.

The adjectives always come before the noun.

So maybe you can remember first is the adjective, then it's the noun.

After that, there's the adverb.

The adverb comes before, sorry, after the verb.

So if you can remember what it looks like and how the verb happened, you're on your

way to learning the differences in the terrible world of fascinatingly wonderful, terrible,

confusing English grammar.

Stay tuned.

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