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Luyện ngữ pháp - Destination C1 and C2 ((Unit 15: Grammar - Adjectives and adverbs))


Confusing cases

Some words have the same form as an adjective and as an adverb and some also form adjectives with -ly. The different forms can have different meanings. These include:

fair/ fairly
free/ freely
late / lately
hard/ hardly
fast
straight
fine/ finely
high/ highly
wide/ widely
well
short/ shortly
right/ rightly
near/ nearly

✓ Sandstone is not a very hard material.
✓ Hit it too hard and you'll break it.
✓ I could hardly hear the music.
Hit it too hardly and you'll break it.

Watch out!
Some adjectives end in -ly, eg costly, deadly, friendly, likely, lively, lonely, lovely.
They do not form adverbs, but we often use a phrase such as in a ... way to describe how something is done.
✓ She looked at me in a very friendly way.



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