GOOD or WELL Adverb or Adjective Confusing English Grammar

Well hey there I’m Emma from mmmEnglish!

These little but very common words can cause

English learners quite a few headaches.

They’re very similar in meaning

but they’re not used in the same way.

It’s easy to confuse them!

So this lesson is going to be short and sweet

but we are going to get to the bottom of this.

Confusing the words ‘good’ and ‘well’

is a really common English error.

Now there are some clear rules

that can help you to use them correctly

but there are also some exceptions to the rules

which probably leave you feeling a little bit confused.

The most helpful thing to keep in mind is that ‘good’

is an adjective

and ‘well’ is an adverb.

They’re two different parts of speech.

A quick reminder. Adjectives can modify nouns

or tell us more information about a noun.

So ‘good’ modifies a noun.

Something can be good.

All of these things.

Now as an adverb,

‘well’ modifies a verb.

An action can be done well, right?

In both these examples, ‘well’ is modifying the verb.

Now, nine times out of ten, most of the time,

the question you need to ask yourself is:

Am I modifying a noun or an action?

And this will help you to make the correct choice

between ‘good’ and ‘well’.

Sweet!

But now I have to mention a significant exception

to this rule

that ‘good’ is the adjective and ‘well’ is the adverb

because when you’re talking about health,

the quality of someone’s health,

‘well’ can be used as an adjective too.

So if someone is well, it means they’re healthy.

All good?

‘Well’ can be

an adjective when you’re talking about health.

Okay are you ready for another exception?

We can actually use ‘good’ with some

non-action verbs like

These are stative verbs.

So we do that when we’re connecting a subject

to an adjective. We can say:

Right?

Right?

So here we can use ‘good’ with a non-action verb.

The last little exception or rule to remember

is that ‘good’ can be used with the verb ‘do’

when ‘good’ is a noun, when you’re talking about

morally correct behaviour.

They help others. This is to do good.

Now word order is really important to get these words

right in your sentence because they’re different

types of words,

they are treated differently in our sentence.

It’s a really common mistake to say:

The adverb doesn’t usually go between the verb

and the object. It goes after the object.

Right? It’s something to keep in mind.

All right, you know that I like to make my lessons

practical for you so that you can practise

what you’ve learned during the lesson.

So are you ready to try it out?

First sentence.

Is it correct?

Because we are modifying the verb ‘speak’

here in this sentence.

What about:

Is that right?

This word is an adjective.

We know because we can see the subject

followed by the verb ‘be’

so I guess we could use ‘well’ as an adjective, right?

But English is a thing not a person

so it doesn’t make sense to say that English

is in good health.

We need to use ‘good’ here.

Let’s try another.

I want you to fill in the gaps.

Can you guess the correct word here?

The adjective or the adverb?

Good! We are modifying the noun ‘day’.

But I want you to write a similar sentence with

the adverb ‘well’, right?

Write it in the comments now.

You might need to change the verb in that sentence

to help you.

Now the adverb is modifying the verb, right? Good job!

We’re modifying the verb ‘do’ here.

Careful! The word that goes in this space is ‘good’.

Just because we’re talking about health in the sentence,

doesn’t mean we need to use ‘well’.

‘good’ or ‘well’?

Well here we could actually use the adjective ‘good’

or the adjective ‘well’.

Both are possible but the meaning is different, right?

Think about the difference in the meaning.

‘Well’ means that he looked healthy.

‘Good’ means that he was

pleasant to look at - handsome!

What about if I said:

How would you answer that question? Would you say:

Or

It depends!

Again, you could say either.

You could use either adjective

but the meaning is slightly different.

I want to finish up today’s lesson with a fixed expression

that seems to challenge these rules a little.

This one.

which means to trick someone or to fool them

so anyone who tricked their friend on April Fool’s Day

can say:

which means you tricked him.

I also want to mention before we finish,

that in informal spoken English, you’ll hear

native English speakers bending the rules a little.

You’ll hear them use ‘good’ as an adverb.

Now this is not actually grammatically correct

but it’s reasonably common and I really recommend

that for you guys,

you stick to the rules. Play by the rules, especially

if you are studying English to sit an exam.

So in that sense, this is incorrect

but you’ll hear it all the time.

So that’s it for today’s lesson,

I told you it was going to be short and sweet.

And I hope it was helpful as well.

There are lots of pairs of words like this in English,

words that have similar meanings but they’re used

differently in sentences.

Can you think of any others?

If you want me to make a lesson about

any more of these pairs of words,

then make sure you tell me about it in the comments.

Tell me what pairs of words

you want me to make a lesson about.

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And once you do that then

come and find me in one of these two lessons here.

I’ll see you in there!

嗯,嘿,我是来自 mmmEnglish 的 Emma!

这些很少但很常见的词可能会让

英语学习者相当头疼。

它们的含义非常相似,

但它们的使用方式不同。

很容易混淆他们!

因此,本课将简短而甜蜜,

但我们将深入了解这一点。

混淆“好”和“好”这两个词

是一个非常常见的英语错误。

现在有一些明确的

规则可以帮助您正确使用它们,

但也有一些例外的

规则可能会让您感到有点困惑。

最需要记住的是“好”

是形容词

,“好”是副词。

它们是两种不同的词性。

快速提醒。 形容词可以修饰名词

或告诉我们有关名词的更多信息。

所以“好”修饰名词。

有些东西可以是好的。

所有这些事情。

现在作为副词,

“well”修饰动词。

一个动作可以做好,对吧?

在这两个例子中,“well”都在修饰动词。

现在,十有八九,大多数时候,

你需要问自己的问题是:

我是在修饰名词还是动作?

这将帮助您

在“好”和“好”之间做出正确的选择。

甜的!

但现在我不得不

提到这个规则的一个重要例外,

即“好”是形容词,“好”是副词,

因为当你谈论健康时,

某人的健康质量,

“好”可以用作形容词 也。

因此,如果某人身体健康,就意味着他们很健康。

都好?

当您谈论健康时,“好”可以是形容词。

好的,你准备好迎接另一个例外了吗?

我们实际上可以将“好”与一些

非动作动词一起使用,例如

这些是静态动词。

因此,当我们将主语连接到形容词时,我们会这样做

。 我们可以说:

对吗?

对?

所以在这里我们可以将“好”与非动作动词一起使用。

最后一个要记住的小例外或规则

是,当您谈论道德上正确的行为时,当“好”是名词时,“好”可以与动词“做”一起使用

他们帮助别人。 这是为了做好事。

现在词序对于

在你的句子中正确使用这些词非常重要,因为它们是不同

类型的词,

它们在我们的句子中被不同地对待。

这是一个非常常见的错误

:副词通常不在动词

和宾语之间。 它追随对象。

对? 这是要记住的事情。

好吧,你知道我喜欢让我的课程

对你实用,这样你就可以练习

你在课程中学到的东西。

那么你准备好尝试了吗?

第一句话。

这是正确的吗?

因为我们在这句话中修改了动词’speak'

怎么样:

是吗?

这个词是形容词。

我们知道是因为我们可以看到主语

后面跟着动词“be”,

所以我想我们可以用“well”作为形容词,对吧?

但是英语不是人,

所以说英语健康是没有意义的

我们需要在这里使用“好”。

让我们尝试另一个。

我希望你填补空白。

你能在这里猜出正确的词吗?

形容词还是副词?

好的! 我们正在修改名词“day”。

但是我希望你用副词“well”写一个类似的句子

,对吧?

现在把它写在评论中。

您可能需要更改该句子中的动词

以帮助您。

现在副词在修饰动词,对吧? 做得好!

我们在这里修改动词“do”。

小心! 这个空间里的词是“好”。

仅仅因为我们在句子中谈论健康,

并不意味着我们需要使用“well”。

“好”还是“好”?

那么在这里我们实际上可以使用形容词“好”

或形容词“好”。

两者都是可能的,但含义不同,对吧?

想想意义的不同。

“好”的意思是他看起来很健康。

“好”的意思是他

长得好看——帅!

如果我说:

你会如何回答这个问题? 你会说:

还是视情况而定

同样,你也可以说。

您可以使用任一形容词,

但含义略有不同。

我想用

一个似乎有点挑战这些规则的固定表达来结束今天的课程。

这个。

这意味着欺骗某人或欺骗他们,

所以任何在愚人节欺骗他们朋友的人都

可以说:

这意味着你欺骗了他。

在我们结束之前,我还想提一下

,在非正式的英语口语中,你会听到

以英语为母语的人稍微改变规则。

您会听到他们使用“好”作为副词。

现在这实际上在语法上并不正确,

但它相当普遍,我真的建议

你们遵守规则。 遵守规则,特别是

如果您正在学习英语以参加考试。

所以从这个意义上说,这是不正确的,

但你会一直听到它。

这就是今天的课程,

我告诉过你这将是简短而甜蜜的。

我希望它也有帮助。

英语中有很多这样的词对,这些

词具有相似的含义,但它们

在句子中的使用方式不同。

你能想到其他人吗?

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