adjectives that describe a noun can easily become adverbs when the sentence is rewritten so that verb is being described intead. Try your hand at rewriting the sentences below make the adjectives work as adverbs.

Have you ever seen a photo of the Great Wall of China? It’s simply enormous. It’s incredibly long, snaking its stony way across the mountains and valleys of Asia, with beautiful towers standing tall every couple of hundred feet. But without modifiers, “the Great Wall” would simply be “the Wall.” We need adverbs and adjectives in order to be descriptive in our writing.

Adjectives, like “great,” “enormous,” “stony,” “long,” and “beautiful,” modify nouns and pronouns. Adverbs, like “simply” and “incredibly,” modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.