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• Examples:
– The patient seems withdrawn today.
– The toilet in medical ward 1 looks and smells
awful.
– I felt relief that the operation was a success.
– The water in the tank is murky.
Formation of Adjectives
Adjectives can be formed by adding suffixes to
nouns and verbs.
Adjectives Ending –y, -ly Adjectives Ending in –al, -ar
Examples : Examples :
• Slow - Slowly • Person - Personal
• Bad - Badly • Circle - Circular
• Air - Airy
Adjectives Ending in –ial, -ual Adjectives Ending with –en, -oid
Examples : Example :
• Bury - burial • Rot - Roten
• Fact - factual • Paranoia - Paranoid
• Continue -continual
Adjectives Ending in –able, -ible Adjectives Ending in –ent, -ant
Examples : Examples :
• Move - Movable • Efficiency - Efficient
• Sense - Sensible • Tolerance - Tolerant
Adjectives Ending in – less, full Adjectives Ending in -ve
Examples : Examples :
• Breath - Breathless • Product - Productive
• Hope - Hopefull • Response - Responsive
Adjectives ending in –ed ; these adjectives
refer to something that has already happened
to a person or thing.
Examples :
– We were loved nursing.
– We were dissapointed with their performance.
Adjectives Ending in – ing: these adjective
refer to something that is in a continuous
state.
Examples :
– A smiling nurse
– An operating teatre
– An interesting case
Adjectives that are formed with neither prefix
nor suffix
Examples :
– Young
– Bitter
– Cool
– Old
– Warm
Adjectives use prefixes to form their opposites.
Examples :
• Unnatural
• Incapable
• Impossible
• Illegible
Adverbs
Adverbs are words, which modify or add to
the meaning of Verbs. Adjectives or another
adverbs.
Example :
• We must examine the patients thoroughly
- Adverb – thorougly describes the actin examine.
• The clinical assintant walked hastily toward the
Ambulance.
- Adverb – hastily describe the action walked.
Adverbs are divided into the following
classes according to their use :
Manner : to show how actions Place : to indicate where actions
are carried out. / activities happen.
• Hastily • Here
• Calmly • There
• Carefully • Inside
• Conscientiously • Wherever
• Anywhere
The doctor examines his Fanny searched for the
patients conscientiously he psychiatric patient
eats alone. everywhere
Time : to indicate when action / Degree : to indicate the relative
activities happen. condition af action/ activities.
• Now • Very
• Then • Quite
• Soon • Almost
• Today • To
• So
• Already
• Event
• Before
• Simply
• Ago • Just
The surgeons are The surgical wound is
performing the operation healing very well.
now.
Frequency : to show how often action or activities are
carried out.
• Always
• Usually
• Often
• Sometime
• Seldom
• never
Formation of Adverbs
We can form adverbs by adding suffixes to
adjectives.
Adverbs ending in –y
Example :
• Full - Fully
•Simple - Simply
Some adverbs do not have prefix
Adverbs ending in -ily or suffix.
Examples: Examples :
• Easy - Easily • Fast
• Noisy - Noisily • Hard
• Hungry - Hungrily • Loud
• early
Adverbs ending with -ly Adverbs ending in -ally
Examples : Examples :
• Proper - Properly • Scientific - Scientifically
• Accurate -Accurately • Systematic - Sistematically
• Cheerful - Cherfully • Surgical - Surgically