Forming Adjectives from Nouns and Adverbs from Adjectives

• Some common adjectives end in -y.

  dirt — dirty, dust — dusty, etc

• Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly to adjectives.

  quick — quickly, proper — properly

• Present participles and past participles can be used as adjectives. bored — boring
  Present participles (-ing) describe what or how somebody or something is and past participles (-ed) describe how people feel. The lecture was interesting. We were interestedin the lecture.

Fill in the correct form of the words in brackets

1. The children have been [ ] waiting for their grandma and grandpa to arrive.
2. The wind was blowing [ ] across the open field.
3. Please drive the car [ ] out of the back gate. There could be someone else coming.
4. Take care walking outside in winter. The pavement can be [ ] and you could slip and fall.
5. The [ ] food made him feel very [ ].
6. The young boy [ ] stroked the small puppy.
7. We thought that the show was simply [ ].
8. All the puppies were fit and [ ].
9. They were [ ] by the speech.
10. We were so [ ] that we decided to stay in.