Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjective or Adverb?

(Прыметнік ці прыслоўе?)

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1. 🔹 What is an adjective?

An adjective describes a noun — a person, a thing or an idea.

(Прыметнік апісвае назоўнік — чалавека, прадмет або паняцце.)

Adjectives are used:

• before a noun (перад назоўнікам) ▪ It’s a quiet place. (Гэта ціхае месца.)
• after the verbs be, look (у значэнні выглядаць), seem, feel (пасля дзеясловаў быць, выглядаць, здавацца, адчуваць) ▪ She is happy. (Яна шчаслівая.) ▪ He looks tired. (Ён выглядае стомленым.) ▪ It feels soft. (На дотык яно мяккае.)

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2. 🔸 What is an adverb?

An adverb tells us how something happens — it describes a verb.

(Прыслоўе паказвае, як адбываецца дзеянне, і апісвае дзеяслоў.)

Examples:

• She sings happily. (Яна спявае шчасліва.)
• He speaks quietly. (Ён размаўляе ціха.)
• They drive carefully. (Яны вядуць машыну асцярожна.)

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3. 🧠 How to form an adverb?

Usually, we add -ly to the adjective:

Adjective	Adverb
quick (хуткі)	quickly (хутка)
slow (павольны)	slowly (павольна)
nice	nicely
quiet (ціхі)	quietly (ціха)
bad	badly

Examples:

• It’s a quick car. (Гэта хуткая машына.)
• He runs quickly. (Ён бегае хутка.)

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4. ❗ Exceptions – Выключэнні

Некаторыя словы не змяняюцца, або маюць асаблівую форму:

Adjective	Adverb	Translation
good	well	добры / добра
fast	fast	хуткі / хутка
hard	hard	цяжкі / цяжка
late	late	позні / позна

• hardly – ледзьве
• I hardly hear you. – Я ледзьве цябе чую.

Examples:

• She is a good dancer. (Яна добрая танцорка.)
• She dances well. (Яна танцуе добра.)
• He works hard. (Ён працуе цяжка.)
• The train is late. (Цягнік спазняецца.)

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5. 🎯 Comparison in context

(Параўнай ужыванне прыметніка і прыслоўя ў падобных сказах)

• He is quiet. (Ён ціхі.) → adjective
• He speaks quietly. (Ён размаўляе ціха.) → adverb
• She is a careful driver. (Яна асцярожная кіроўца.)
• She drives carefully. (Яна едзе асцярожна.)

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6. ✨ Adverbs can describe adjectives

(Прыслоўі могуць апісваць прыметнікі, паказваючы ступень або характар)

Examples:

• She is extremely kind. (Яна празмерна добрая.)
• He looks really tired. (Ён выглядае сапраўды стомленым.)

Найчасцейшыя ўзмайняльныя прыслоўі:

very, really, extremely, quite, terribly, a bit, rather

✍️ Практыкаванне: Выберы правільную форму — прыметнік або прыслоўе

(Напрыклад: She sings ___ (beautiful / beautifully) → beautifully)

1. He looked ___ after the exam. (nervous / nervously)
2. Please speak more ___. (clear / clearly)
3. She is a very ___ artist. (creative / creatively)
4. I answered the questions ___. (correct / correctly)
5. My cat is very ___. (quiet / quietly)
6. They worked ___ to finish the project. (hard / hardly)
7. This soup tastes ___. (delicious / deliciously)
8. The train arrived ___. (late / lately)
9. That was a really ___ idea! (good / well)
10. He paints so ___. (neat / neatly)
11. Her dress looks ___. (elegant / elegantly)
12. The children played ___. (happy / happily)
13. Your handwriting is very ___. (neat / neatly)
14. We had a ___ conversation. (nice / nicely)
15. She ran very ___. (fast / fastly)
16. I feel ___. (bad / badly)
17. He’s always been a ___ student. (hard-working / hard-workingly)
18. They danced ___. (graceful / gracefully)
19. The cake smells ___. (wonderful / wonderfully)
20. She looked at me ___. (angry / angrily)