90 CHAPTER 3. MORE GRAMMAR, and ”noun adjectives”, which are nouns denoting qualities or aspects,
and are used in combination with the
for , , as aĴributives:”(this/it) is (a) clean/tidy room.””(he/she/it) is (a/the) quiet person.”
For these kind of nouns, using such as in is incorrect.
Sadly, it is impossible to tell whether a noun will use or when it is
being linked with other nouns. Sometimes you can guess, based on the
fact that the noun marks some quality or aspect, but often it is impossible
to tell without seeing or hearing the noun used in a sentence, so you can
tell which of or it uses.3.1.3 Adverbial
In addition to the aĴributive, which aĴributes qualities to nouns, there are
adverbs, which aĴribute qualities to verb actions. There are three word
classes that can do this, namely the verbal adjectives, the noun ’adjectives’
(the ones that take ) and, of course, true adverbs.
True adverbs are easy, since they do exactly what you’d expect:”(I/you/he/she/we/they) read(s) book(s).””(I/you/he/she/we/they) sometimes read(s) (a) book(s).”
Here, the adverb , ’sometimes’, also wriĴen (the symbol
is a kanji repeater symbol) qualifies the action of reading to apply only
sometimes, rather than in general.
We can achieve the same effect of qualifying the verb action by using
verbal adjectives in form:
”(I/you/he/she/we/they) will fix (it).””(I/you/he/she/we/they) will fix (it) quickly.”
In this sentence, the adjective , ’fast’ (not to be confused with