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I need some help with picking out adjectives and adverbs in these movie review examples.

'Toy Story 3': Alternately affecting, hilarious and heartbreaking and the most original prison-escape movie ever made.
A worthy finale to a fantastic franchise.
It's sadder and scarier than its predecessors, but it also may be the most important chapter in the tale.
The best movie of the year so far.
Do see this lovely film sooner than later.
In a summer that will be littered with bad sequels, bad 3-D and bad storytelling, it is a movie to be heartily embraced.
How the animation wizards at Pixar keep coming up with innovative and rapturous stories is one of the miracles in modern film.
This film -- this whole three-part, 15-year epic -- about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love.
Dazzling, scary and sentimental, Toy Story 3 is a daringly dark and emotional conclusion to the film series that made Pixar famous.

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We'll be glad to HELP you pick out the adjectives and adverbs.

Study these sites carefully. Then post the adjectives and adverbs you find in this example. We'll be glad to correct your answers.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adjective.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/adverb.htm
I'll do the first two for you.

'Toy Story 3': Alternately affecting, hilarious and heartbreaking and the most original prison-escape movie ever made.
adverbs: alternately, most, ever
adjectives: affecting, hilarious, heartbreaking, the, original, prison-escape

A worthy finale to a fantastic franchise.
adjectives: worthy, a, fantastic

Adjectives describe (modify) nouns.
Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm
ADVERBS: Alternately,worthy,sadder,scarier, sooner,later, heartily, melancholy
ADJECTIVES:
dark,long,noble, stubborn, foolish,bad,best,most
Please re-read those webpages with explanations and examples of adjectives and adverbs. Then re-write and re-post.
Did you really study the websites that Writeacher and I posted?

The following are NOT adverbs: worthy, sadder, scarier, melancholgy

The following is NOT an adjective: most

You missed most of the adverbs and adjectives.
ARE THESE ALL ADVERBS?
Alternately, most, ever
worthy, fantastic, sadder, scarier, so, lovely, heartily, melancholy,daringly
Adverbs: Alternately, most, ever, heartily, daringly

The others are not.
ARE THESE ALL ADJECTIVES?
affecting, hilarious, heartbreaking, original prison-escape movie,sadder,scarier, most,best,bad, bad, bad,innovative, rapturous, whole three-part, 15-year, bunch, silly plastic, junk, long, noble, stubborn, foolish,
Dazzling, scary, sentimental, dark
Not movie or most. The rest are.

And there are additional adjectives in those sentences.
I get so confused with adjectives and adverbs... I know that adverbs describe verbs and adjectives describe nouns but when words like "a" I don't understand....
While "a, an, the" are considered adjectives, they do not usually have to be identified as adjectives.

Please review the websites we posted. Study them carefully.