What’s the difference between an adjective and an adverb? Well, to answer that question, you first need to know the difference between a noun and a verb.
In American English, every sentence needs to have at least one noun (a person, place, or thing) and one verb (an action). For example, “The boy runs.” In this sentence, the “boy” is our main subject or noun, and “runs” is the action he does (simple present tense).
So, if we want to describe the boy in more detail, or add information about our subject to the sentence, then we need to use an adjective. This can be any descriptive word i.e. young, tall, happy, smart, Mexican, etc. Adjectives usually come before the word they describe (Example 1.2), but, they can also come after if a relative clause like “who” is used (i.e. The boy, who is young, runs).
Now, if you’d like to describe how he runs or add information about the action in the sentence, then you need to use an adverb. In the example above, you can see that the boy runs “quickly”. Other examples to describe the verb “runs”, here, could be: “slowly”, “happily” or “confidently”. You’ll notice that most adverbs end in the suffix “-ly” (pronounced “LEE”), but we’re going to save the discussion on prefixes and suffixes for next time!
In summary, the difference between adjectives and adverbs is that the first describes nouns, and the second describes verbs. I hope this article helped clear that up a bit! See you at the next one✨
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