Skill 24 : Adjectives And Adverb

Sometime in the Written Expression section of the TOEFL test, adjectives are incorrectly used in place of adverbs, or adverbs are incorrectly used in place of adjectives. Adjectives and adverbs have very different uses in sentences. Adjectives have only one job : they describes nouns or pronouns.

It is a delicious meal.
It is delicious.

In the first example, the adjective delicious describes the noun meal. In the second example, the adjective delicious describes the pronoun it.
Adverbs have three different uses. They can describes verbs, adjectives or toher adverbs.

He writes letters quickly.
It is a quickly written letter.
It is an extremely quickly written letter.

In the first example, the adverb quickly describes the verb writes. In the second example, the adverb quickly describes the adjective written (which describes the noun letter).  In third example, the adverb extremely describes the adverb quickly, which describes the adjective written (which describes the noun letter)

The following are examples of incorrect sentences as they might appear on the TOEFL test.

They were seated at largely table.
The child talked soft to her mother
We read an extreme long story.
She speaks unbelievable quickly.

In the first example, the adverb largely is incorrect because the adjective large is needed to describes the noun table.In the second example, the adjective soft is incorrect because the adverb softly is needed to describe the verb talked. In the third example the adjective extreme is incorrect because the adverb extremely is needed to describe the adjective long. In the last example the adjective unbelievable is incorrect because the adverb unbelievably is needed to describes the adverb quickly. 

The following chart outlines the important information that you should remember about the use of adjectives and adverbs.

USE OF ADJECTIVE AND ADVERBS
Adjective	Adjectives describe noun or pronouns
Adverb	Adverbs describes verbs, adjectives or other adverbs