Adverbs versus Adjectives?

One lesson that you can help your student with is teaching them the difference between adverbs and adjectives.

What is an adjective? An adjective is a descriptive word that describes or modifies a noun.

Adjective examples:

The nice student. The adjective would be "nice" because nice is describing student.
The bad dog. The adjective would be "bad" because bad is describing dog.

What is an adverb? An adverb is a descriptive word that describes or modifies a verb. Normally you would see an adverb end in -ly and it usually answers "how" something is.

Adverb examples:

The student acted nicely.

The adverb would be "nicely" because nicely describes the way the student acted.

The dog behaved badely.

The adverb would be "badly" because it modifies the way the dog behaved.


It is really easy to have students learn these two grammar concepts. By taking a second and ask the student what the descriptive word is modifying will help them understand these concepts:)

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