Identifying Parts of Speech

Although adverbs and adjectives are both descriptive words, they modify different parts of speech.  Use adjectives for nouns. Use adverbs for verbs and other adjectives.

Be careful.  Words can be both adjectives and adverbs DEPENDING on what they modify.  The room could be dark (adjective) or the room could be dark green (adverb).

How can you tell if adjectives or adverbs are modifying the wrong kind of word?

Let’s use this example:

Pronouns take the place of common nouns and proper nouns.  For the most part, they just make English easier. Pronouns make it so that we don't have to keep repeating names of people and items once we have established what we are taking about.  For instance, once you know we are talking about pronouns, we can refer to them as them.