Adjectives and Adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 2

Adjectives and Adverbs

Aim of this lesson

You know:

• the difference between adjectives and adverbs
  
• how to form them
  
• how to use them
  

Adjectives and Adverbs

(bijvoegelijke naamwoorden en bijwoorden)

1. Frank is a good singer 

2. My brother is a careful driver.

An adjective describes something or someone, it says something about tne noun. 

Adjectives and Adverbs

1. Frank sings well. 

2. My brother drives carefully.

Adverbs (Bijwoorden) can describe other words. An adverb says, for example, how something has happened or how something is done. It tells you something about the verb.

-ly

Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly after the adjective.

Beautiful - beautifully

Remember! Sometimes the spelling of the adverb changes. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

uitzonderingen

Na de werkwoorden die te maken hebben met je zintuigen (to feel/to taste/to smell en het werkwoord to be krijg je geen -ly.

There are also irregular adverbs. The adverb for good is  well - She's a good performer. She performs well. 

A few adverbs have the same form as the adjective.

Fast (snel), fair (sportief/eerlijk), low, high, hard, long, late, loud  and straight (onmiddelijk) - He's a fast driver, He drives fast. 

Which one is the adjective (bijvoeglijk naamwoord)?

1. Beautiful
2. Well
3. Normally
4. Wonderfully

This hamburger tastes ...

1. Awful
2. Awfully

Max is a ... singer.

1. Good
2. Well

You can ... open the box.

1. Easy
2. Easily
3. Easyly

He drives the car ...

1. Carefully
2. Careful

Jamie Oliver cooks ...

1. Fantastic
2. Fantasticly
3. Fantastically

That pizza smells ...

1. Nicely
2. Nice

Madonna is a ... singer.

1. Terribly
2. Terrible

I think a Friesian horse is ...

1. Beautiful
2. Beautifully

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Adjectives and Adverbs