Adverb or adjective

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• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Adverb or Adjective

A word that tells you something about an object or a person. For example what it looks like. 

A word that usually describes an action, it is something you can do.

A word that identifies people, objects, ideas, places etc.

A word that is used to change the meaning of a verb or an adjective

ADJECTIVE

VERB

ADVERB

NOUN

says something about a noun

says something about an adverb, verb, or adjective

Definition of an adjective 

Definition of an adverb

Adverb or adjective?
It is a BEAUTIFUL dog.
"Beautiful" is an....

1. Adverb
2. adjective

Adverb or adjective?
I'm working very hard
The word "hard" is an...

1. adverb
2. adjective

Adverb or Adjective?
I'm hardly working.
"hardly" is an...

1. Adverb
2. Adjective

Adverb or adjective?
The birdsong
sounds ............ .

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

Adjectives and Adverbs
Adverbs (bijwoorden) describe nouns and adjectives (bijvoeglijke naamwoorden) describe verbs

1. true
2. false

He _______ reads a book.

1. quick
2. loud
3. quickly
4. slowily

It is a ______ day today. The class is _______ loud today.

1. terrible, terribly
2. terribly, terrible
3. terrible, terrible
4. terribly, terribly

He is very sensible. He always drives the car very ________.

1. careful
2. carefully

She is a great singer. She sings the song _____.

1. good
2. well

You can _____ open this box.

1. easy
2. easily

Don't speak so ____. I don't understand.

1. fast
2. fastly

After the accident, the bus driver was _____ injured.

1. serious
2. seriously

The tajine smells _____.

1. good
2. well.

Kevin is _____ clever.

1. extreme
2. extremely

Our basketball team played _____ last Friday.

1. bad
2. badly

I ...... disagree. (strong)

1. Strong
2. Strongly
3. Strongerly
4. Stongiliy

He worked really .... . (hard)

1. Hardly
2. Hardely
3. Hard
4. Hardie

Don't let him cook! last time it smelled .... . (Awful)

1. Awful
2. Awfull
3. Awfuly
4. Awfully

They saw a ....... butterfly on a rose. (beautiful)

1. beautiful
2. beautifully
3. beautifuly
4. beautifull

The weather is ..................

1. extreme beautiful
2. extremely beautiful
3. extreme beautifully
4. extremely beatifully

The news is .........................

1. utter disgustingly
2. utterly disgustingly
3. utterly disgusting
4. utter disgusting

She sings the song...........

1. extremely good
2. extremely good
3. extreme well
4. extremely well

Practice

The next 8 slides are practice sentences.

Write out the whole sentence.

Use correct punctuation.

They were smiling.........(happy) while they were walking home

We had dealt with an.....(awful) difficult subject.

It was all about discussing your .....(serious) problems

That wasn't ...(easy) I can tell you. We were....(awful) tired.

(Obvious) somebody had broken in, and we also noticed something smelled...(bad).

When we entered ... (quiet), we noticed the cause of the...(horrible) smell.

There had been a fire that had...(complete) destroyed the kitchen.

We were very ...(fortunate)that our... (watchful)neighbours had called 911.