Mastering adjectives and adverbs is crucial for vivid and engaging writing. Many students struggle with this concept, leading to awkward prose and undermining their credibility. Adjectives describe ...

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

The word 'even' can be used as an adverb and an adjective. Take a look at some of its uses in this lesson. ‘Even’ is used as an adverb when we want to add emphasis to show that something is surprising ...

You probably noticed this place is called Mount Scary. Well, that’s not because of the mountain. Allow me to explain. Y’see, she’s not just a yeti… she’s a scary yeti. Scary is an adjective. An ...

Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...

I couldn’t agree more with the meaning of that slogan. But what about its grammar? Purists would argue that people don’t drive “drunk”; rather, they say, people “drive drunkenly” or they “drive in a ...

Japanese adjectives conjugate to become adverbs. We can change I adjectives that end with syllable I, such as HAYAI (early), to adverbs by changing the final I to KU. So, HAYAI becomes HAYAKU. If ...