5.? Adjectives & Adverbs

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Adjectives & Adverbs

Today

- Adjectives and adverbs

- Practising the grammar

- End of lesson

Lesson aims

- You know what an adjective is and when to use it.

- You know what an adverb is and when & how to use it.

Adjectives

An adjective says something about a noun

(= Bijvoeglijk naamwoord)

This is a beautiful song.

He has a loud voice.

Adverbs

An adverb says something about a verb.

(= bijwoord)

The singer sang beautifully.

He is talking quite loudly.

+ LY

Adverb = adjective + ly

Adjective:

This is a beautiful song.

He has a loud voice.

Adverb:

The singer sang beautifully.

He is talking quite loudly.

Exceptions #1

Be careful: spelling

1. adjective -le = adverb -ly

    terrible ➔ terribly

2. adjective: consonant + y   

    = adverb: consonant + ily

    Easy ➔ easily

Exceptions #1

Be careful: spelling

3. adjective: ends with -ic

    = adverb: + ally

    Fantastic ➔ fantastically

Exceptions #2

Be careful: senses

With some verbs (senses/ zintuigen) you don't use an adverb but an adjective. 

to be (zijn)   /   to seem   /   to feel   /   to smell 

   to sound   /   to taste   /   to hear   /   to touch

It smells terrible.

Exceptions #3

Be careful: irregular

Some adjectives have a different adverb:

He is a good boy. ➔  He studies well.

Sometimes it stays the same:

fast   /   long   /   fair  /   low

That is a fast car.   ➔   It drives fast. 

In short

Which is the adjective?

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

Which is the adverb?

1. Quick
2. Magically
3. Happily
4. Bad

Max is a ...... singer.

1. good
2. well

Max sings .....

1. good
2. well

You can ..... open the box.

1. easy
2. easily
3. easyly

Jamie Oliver cooks .....

1. Fantastic
2. Fantasticly
3. Fantastically

The hamburger tastes .....

1. awful
2. awfully

Justin Bieber is a ...... singer.

1. terrible
2. terribly

That pizza smells .....

1. nicely
2. nice

I think a Frisian horse is .....

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

Do the exercises

English website:   ➔   TESTS - what to study 

                                      ➔   Period 3 - Grammar

                                      ➔   Scroll down to 'Adverb / adjectives'

Do exercises 1 & 2 until you have at least 80% correct

THEN:

Study vocabulary Unit 4 & 5

Lesson aims

- You know what an adjective is and when to use it.

- You know what an adverb is and when & how to use it.