Friday, August 23, 2013

Adjectively: adjectives that end with Ly


Some adjectives that end with Ly are also adverbs, but not all.
  • heavenly
  • miserly
  • beastly
  • costly
  • cowardly
  • deadly
  • friendly
  • likely
  • brotherly
  • kingly
  • leisurely
  • lovely
  • lively
  • womanly
  • princely
  • scholarly
  • silly
  • ugly
  • unlikely
  • bodily
  • burly
  • chilly
  • comely
  • courtly
  • dastardly
  • measly
  • jolly
  • oily
  • otherworldly
  • shapely
  • sly
  • unlikely
  • wily
  • wooly
  • wordly
see http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/words/lys.html

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Words that are both adjectives and adverbs

(a.k.a. adjerbs)

Ending with Ly

  • early
  • slovenly
  • gingerly
  • hourly
  • daily
  • weekly
  • monthly
  • yearly
  • quarterly
  • timely


Not Ending with Ly

  • pretty
  • fast
  • slow
  • half
  • straight
  • late
  • low
  • hard
  • bright
  • safe
  • better, best
  • first, second ...

see http://www.englishpractice.com/improve/words-adjectives-adverbs/