ADJECTIVES: modify nouns & pronouns  How many? Which one? What kind? ADVERBS: modify verbs, adjectives, & other adverbs  Where? When? How? To what extent? EX) The (loud, loudly) music hurt my ears. EX) She played the music (loud, loudly) enough to shake the walls.

1. Express a state of being  To be; seem; become 2. Followed by an adjective  That clown is funny.  She became incoherent. 3. Some verbs can be linking OR action verbs.  Remain; appear; look; smell; grew; feel; taste; sound  I tasted those cookies  Those cookies tasted delicious.

 Remain; appear; look; smell; grew; feel; taste; sound  if you can’t tell whether the verb is a LV or AV, replace it with a form of to be. If the sentence makes sense, it is a LV; if not, it is an AV  Your perfume smells too strong. (Your perfume IS too strong.)  As soon as I walked in, I smelled popcorn. (I AM popcorn.)  Linking verbs are followed by nouns or adjectives.  As the debate progressed, the defenders of tax reform grew more and more (excited, excitedly).

Comparatives – compare 2 things  Er/more  The bus is quicker than the train.  She is more beautiful than a gorilla. Superlatives – compare more than 2 things  Est/most  He is the quickest on the team.  She is the most beautiful of all the gorillas.  Of the eight boxers, Jones hits (harder, hardest) than Smith, but Williams hits (harder, hardest) of all.

MOST = adverb (superlative)  She is the MOST obnoxious girl in class. MOST = adjective  Most children like ice-cream. ALMOST = adverb  Almost every person likes popcorn. Most CAN NOT be used for the adverb ALMOST:  Most every person likes popcorn.