tailieunhanh - Turbocharge your GMAT sentence correction guide part 3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'turbocharge your gmat sentence correction guide part 3', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Sentence Correction Guide - Grammar Review 6 Adjective Usage An adjective is a descriptive word which qualifies a noun making it more specific The red car. The old red car. The big old red car. The two young professors lived in Greewich Village. A bright light flashed through the window of the house. Adjectives are usually arranged in the order of specificity. Words normally used to perform other grammatical functions may be used as adjectives. These can be recognized by their position before the noun to which they apply remote-control car war effort Christmas cookies spring carnival Adjectives can also be used to form a predicate with the verb to be Chocolate is yummy. Normally only true adjectives can be used to form this kind of predicate. It is not possible to say Wrong The cookies were Christmas or Wrong The carnival was spring. In such cases it is necessary to use the prop-word one The cookies were Christmas ones. There are three forms of a true adjective. Normal big beautiful Comparative bigger more beautiful Superlative biggest most beautiful No agreement to noun is necessary for an adjective. Student Notes 1999 - 2008 Manhattan Review Sentence Correction Guide - Grammar Review 7 Adverb An adverb is a part of speech used mainly to modify verbs but also adjectives and other adverbs. Adverbs describe how where or when. Adverbial Forms Adverbs are formed in a few different ways Most adverbs are formed from adjectives by the addition of the ending -ly as in suddenly playfully interestingly or -ally after words in -ic as in automatically . Some adverbs are formed from nouns in combination with other suffixes -wise as in clockwise lengthwise and -ward s as in northwards westwards skyward . Some common adverbs have no suffixes as in here there now well just. Some adverbs can qualify other adverbs the most common are intensifiers such as very as in very quick . Some adverbs have the same form as their adjective .