In today's Mastering the Basics lesson, we're going to focus on just two out of those nine
features
of English speech that we looked at earlier in this module of the course and the two parts of
speech.
We're going to look at today are, of course, super important and they are awesome adjectives
and amazing
adverbs.
So these are really commonly used parts of English speaking.
And we definitely need to develop our understanding of them at the base.
They sound pretty simple and they are in a sense, although there are different ways in which
we can
group them different ways which we can use them.
And understanding this will really help us be accurate within our English speaking.
So we we're going to focus on adjectives and adverbs today and really go a bit more in-depth
into how
we can use these types of language types of words within our speaking to.
So let's begin our lesson.
See if you can identify all the adjectives and adverbs in the passage below, and I'm going to
give
you one minute to do this.
There may be some differences between people, but just try and identify as many obvious
adjectives
and adverbs as you can.
If you don't really know how to do it yet, don't worry about it.
Just remember adjectives describing words, adverbs, really.
They mostly describe verbs.
That's how we're going to think of them for now.
So I'm going to show you a short piece of writing, a passage of writing.
I just want you to read it for one minute and try and find some adjectives and adverbs.
And your one minute starts now.
And that is the end of your one minute time limit, so well done if you manage to identify and
identify
a few.
Sorry, but don't worry.
If not, this is definitely just a quick practice activity where, you know, it's great if you can
find some adjectives and adverbs, but if not, don't worry.
We're right at the start of the course, the first module really of our learning.
So here are a few adverbs and adjectives that I identified.
There was a few of the ones that you could maybe argue or at least say, well, that's almost an
adverb
especially.
But generally speaking, these are the main obvious ones.
OK, so the main point that I wanted to make to you is that there used a lot and you may be
thinking
where they're pretty simple ideas, adjectives, adverbs.
Yes, in a way.
But also we can really go a bit more in depth with our understanding of adjectives and
adverbs and consider
different ways that they can be used and for different reasons.
All of this understanding is going to improve your overall fluency in English language and
English speaking,
which is, of course, our main goal.
So let's move on and take a look at awesome adjectives so adjectives can be considered can
be grouped
into five different groups.
That's how I personally grouped them.
You may be able to find different groupings, but I think adjectives are best placed in five
different
groups.
And again, this will help with your understanding of their use and their importance so we can
have
adjectives of quality.
This is generally what people think.
Adjectives just are describing words of nouns, but not quite.
We can also have adjectives of quantity, demonstrative adjectives.
Adjectives of no, this one's pretty straightforward, and then we can also have interrogative
adjectives
are super useful to know or these interrogative adjectives.
OK, so let's go through them each and take a look at them in a little bit more detail.
So we'll begin with adjectives of quality.
And this is that classic example of an adjective that describes how the noun is.
It describes the quality of the noun.
This can be things like honest, short, happy, ugly, large, important yoong.
All adjectives used to describe nouns.
Hey, be careful.
That letter is very important.
So we have a letter which is our noun and that we have very which actually is an adverb and
important,
which is our adjective.
The letter, the quality of the letter is important.
I'm usually a pretty happy sort of guy, I think.
OK, so here we have happy and it's really giving a quality to the noun, which is a guy I'm
really
a happy guy, a happy sort of guy.
OK, so adjectives of quantity and this simply give gives the nouns amount.
How much of the noun is there.
This can be all many a few sum loads.
Very colloquial native sounding loads.
Half or most.
I'm full, thanks, A.J., Most of my lunch already.
There's loads of hotels offering discounts right now.
OK, so a few examples of using adjectives of quantity, again, loads really negative sounding
used
especially by British speakers a lot.
OK, let's move on.
And we're now going to see a demonstrative adjectives.
And this really describes how the noun is that this, these and those.
That bag just over there is definitely mine, so we're kind of signaling to the noun as well, we're
defining it in more detail.
We're almost pointing to it.
That bag, so we can see the adjective that and we have the noun bag are closely linked
together.
That bag that bag just over there is definitely mine.
OK, adjectives of no, they just show the exact number of nouns and it really is only for exact
numbers.
So any given number this can work for.
A quick example for you, I've only got five days left until my test.
How many days can we describe?
How many days?
Five days.
The adjective of number five.
Interrogative adjective So our final type of adjectives, and these are really question openers
that
we can use when asking questions what, where, when, how, why and who.
So really useful words there.
And they can open questions when they're next to the noun, they become interrogative
adjectives in,
as you can see in this example, what restaurant is your favorite?
So there we are describing the noun.
What restaurant is your favorite?
Again, these W words above super useful and will be returning to them throughout the
course.
OK, so that's all on the different kinds of adjectives.
It's useful to know that there are different types and they can be used for different reasons.
But I don't want to leave out our amazing adverbs.
So in a similar way to adjectives, adverbs can be split into different groups too.
And I teach three groups of adverbs.
Adverbs generally are considered l y ending words.
But that's not always the case.
It doesn't always have to be just quickly those types of adverbs.
However, they are the most common and the most commonly understood adverbs of manner.
So this describes how a verb was acted.
This is pretty much what people always define adverbs as.
This is the first thought of what an adverb is.
Slowly, Baddeley, beautifully, loudly, happily.
You performed the dance beautifully in purple, we have our past tense verb performed and in
green our
adverb which modifies performed it, give extra information beautifully performed beautifully.
OK, so our next type of adverb is adverbs of degree, and this really describes the actions
current
state.
This can be almost fully rather to enough perfectly.
I was almost falling asleep then.
In green, we have our adverb almost, not quite nearly, and there we have a phrase, verb, two
words
to make a phrase, a phrase verb falling asleep.
This can be considered a one verb, one phrase almost falling asleep.
Our last type of adverb is adverbs of affirmation, and this is to confirm either positively or
negatively,
plus not so we can have certainly surely apparently, obviously.
And we can also add.
Not certainly not.
Surely not.
Apparently not.
Obviously not.
Here's an example for you.
Surely you brought your passport.
Lewis surely is to say you must have you must have brought it brought is our verb in purple.
Surely you brought your passport, Lewis.
OK, so that is a three kinds of adverbs.
And as you can see, not always y ending.
Just it's good to understand that you don't always end your adverbs with l y OK, so time for
our animated
section of this lesson.
