Adverbs and Adjectives

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today

• reminding you of what you need to know for the final grammar test
• refreshing your knowledge of adverbs and adjectives 
• seeing whether you can actively use adverbs&adjectives yourself 

pronouns

adverbs and adjectives

passive

plural & genitive

degrees of comparison

tenses

word order

conditionals

If you do not feel the need to work on

your grammar anymore, you can turn to Teams and work on one of the writing assignments (essay or creative writing). 

Make sure you hand in what you wrote at the end of today's class.

Adverbs and Adjectives

Let's see how much you can remember

Adverbs
What are they?

So...

Adverbs tell you more about:

verbs

adjectives

other adverbs

the rest of the sentence

Frankly, I don’t know what you mean

Give 2 examples
of an adverb

Adjectives, what
can you remember?

This is what you should know...

• geeft meer informatie over een zelfstandig naamwoord
• wordt gebruikt in combinatie met een koppelwerkwoord: to be / become / get / look (eruitzien) /sound / taste (smaken)/ feel (zich voelen) /smell / appear / seem 
• Voorbeeld: This meal smells wonderful NIET wonderfully

Give 2 examples
of an adjective

Een aantal bijvoeglijke naamwoorden

veranderen niet van vorm als je er een bijwoord

van maakt. De voornaamste zijn:

deep, fair, fast, hard, high, late, low, long, right

This is a fast car. 

My father drove very fast yesterday evening. 

Practise 

You will now take part in an interactive quizz. 

You have 20 seconds per slide.

Which of these is an adjective?
There are 2 options, choose 1.

1. Quickly
2. Silly
3. Better

Complete the sentence.
She __ accepted his help.

1. grateful
2. gratefully
3. gratefuly
4. gratefull

Complete the sentence.
Martin is a __ star football player.

1. 19 year old
2. 19-years old
3. 19-year old
4. 19-year-old

Her story about spending more time without her phone sounds__and it could be an__ inspiring experience.

1. better/enormously
2. well/enormously
3. good/enormously

This class has worked __ __ all year.

1. surprising/well
2. surprisingly/good
3. surprising/good
4. surprisingly/well

Peter can write __ __ stories. They are almost like poetry.

1. really/well
2. really/beautiful
3. very/well

Many parents think teenagers are ____ and lazy and find it ____ to wake up early in the morning.

1. slow / impossible
2. slowly / impossibly
3. slowily/ impossible
4. slow / impossibly

Vertaal:
Hij speelt extreem goed.

Vertaal:
Deze hamburger smaakt vreselijk.

Vertaal:
Nederland won gemakkelijk met 3-0

Vertaal:
Wees voorzichtig, dit kan heel erg fout gaan.

To summarize 

Write two complete sentences of your own,
one using an adjective
and one using an adverb.