English Grammar Workbook For Dummies, with Online Practice, 3rd Edition

Chapter 8

Writing Good or Well: Adjectives and Adverbs

IN THIS CHAPTER

Distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs

Deciding whether an adjective or an adverb is appropriate

Selecting articles: a or an or the

Choosing good or well and bad or badly

Creating comparisons with adjectives and adverbs

Do you write good or well — and what’s the difference? Does your snack break feature a apple or an apple or the apple? Is your cold worse or more bad? If you’re stewing over these questions, you have problems … specifically, the problems in this chapter. Here you can practice choosing between two types of descriptions, adjectives and adverbs. This chapter also helps you figure out whether a, an, or the is appropriate in any given situation. Finally, here you practice making comparisons with adjectives and adverbs.

Identifying Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjectives describe nouns — words that name a person, thing, place, or idea. They also describe pronouns, which are words that stand in for ...