Adjectives and Adverbs

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

Periode 3 grammar

ADJECTIVES

An adjective says something about a noun.

Beyoncé is a   ...........
     sexy                lady.

 adjective            noun

ADVERBS

An adverb says something about a verb.

He         talked         nervously.

            verb              adverb

LY

adverb = adjective + ly

adjective:    the beautiful girl

adverb:         she sings beautifully

SPELLING!

Be careful!!

adjective -le      =        adverb -ly

  terrible                           terribly

SPELLING!

Be careful!!

 adjective:  consonant +y (easy)

    adverb:       ily (easily)

SPELLING!

Be careful!!

adjective:  ends with -ic (fantastic)

adverb:       +ally (fantastically)

SENSES

Be careful!!

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

Be careful!!

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. 

Which one is the adjective?

1. beautiful
2. well
3. normally
4. wonderfully

Max is a ... singer.

1. good
2. well

Max sings ......

1. good
2. well

This hamburger tastes ...

1. awful
2. awfully

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

Madonna is a ... singer.

1. terribly
2. terrible

That pizza smells ...

1. nicely
2. nice

I think a Friesian horse is ...

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

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