Page 17 - Basic English Usage

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There are no adverbs friendly or friendlily, lovely or lovelily, etc. We have
to use different structures.
friendly.
me
She smiled at me in a friendly way. (NOT She-smiec
)
at
He gave a silly laugh. (NOT Hetaughed silty. )
Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and early are both adjectives and
adverbs.
It's adaily paper. _ It comes out daily.
an early train i got up early.

adjectives: order

Before a noun, we put adjectives in a fixed order. The exact rules are
very complicated (and not very well understood). Here are the most
important rules:
Adjectives of colour, origin (where something comes from), material
(what it is made of) and purpose (what it is for) go in that order.
colour origin material purpose noun
red Spanish leather _ riding boots

a Venetian glass ashtray (NOT agtass Venetian -ashiray)
a brown German beer-mug (NOT @ German brown beer mtg)

Other adjectives come before colour-adjectives etc.
Their exact order is too complicated to give rules.
a big black cat (NOT @blaek big-cat)
the round glass tabie (NOT the glass round tabie)

First, lastand next usually come before numbers.
ihe first three days (NOT the three first days)
my last two jobs (NOT my twetastyebs )

For and with adjectives, see 31.3. | For commas with adjectives. see 266.1.

10 adjectives: position

—
| adjective + noun
subject | + copula verb (be, seem, look etc) + adjective
Most adjectives can go in two places in a sentence:
before a noun
The new Secretary doesnt like me.
She married a rich businessman.