Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: This essay will mainly concentrate on the central distinction between adjectives and adverbs as one of their respective functions. Part 2.1 describes the characteristics of adjectives, while Part 2.2 elaborates on the characteristics of adverbs. Part 3 focuses on the main topic, namely the distinction between adjectives and adverbs based on their respective functions; this section explores why their functions are considered the only way to clearly distinguish between adjectives and adverbs. Part 4 gives a short summary of the findings and raises further questions concerning adjectives and adverbs. Given the limited scope of this paper, only essential aspects of adjectives and adverbs are provided and core issues relating to their functional distinction are mentioned.