Adjectives and adverbs

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Today's Goals 

• To know the difference between adjectives and adverbs 
• To be able to form adverbs from adjectives
• To be able to use them both correctly

What are adjectives? 

Adjectives - bijvoeglijk naamwoorden

She is wearing a colourful dress

What kind of dress is it? 

Adjectives ONLY give us more information about nouns (zelfstandig naamwoorden - people, places, things, ideas)

Other adjectives: beautiful, simple, large, awful, good, happy

 

Adjectives in a sentence

Most of the time before a noun 

He is a slow driver = slow tells us what kind of driver he is

Sometimes after a linking verb. Most common one is 'to be'

That film is fantastic.

Fantastic tells us more about the film

What are adverbs? 

Adverbs - bijwoord

Max Verstappen drives fast in the F1 races.

They ran quickly in the hallway

Adverbs - give us extra information about the way something happens. It adds information to the verb.

How does Max drive? 

How did they run?

Adverbs can also .....

...add extra information to adjectives, other adverbs and the whole sentence.

James is wearing a really bright jumper.

Max Verstappen drives very fast.

John and James will arrive shortly. 

Unfortunately, I can't make it to the concert tonight.

How is an adverb made? 

Adjective + ly  

Beautiful + ly = Beautifully or Short = Shortly

Spelling rules: 

Ends in '-ic' + '-ally' Magic = Magically, Fantastic = Fantastically

 Ends in '-y', remove the '-y' and add '-ily' Easy = Easily

Ends in '-le' remove the '-e' + '-y'  Simple = Simply 

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'comic' into an adverb

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'soft' into an adverb

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'happy' into an adverb

Irregular  adverbs

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, and straight (onmiddelijk) - He's a fast driver, He drives fast. 

Which one is the adjective?

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

Moet hier een bijvoeglijk naamwoord of een bijwoord:
It is _____ hot today!

1. Real
2. Really

Adjective or adverb, which one?
The garden is .....

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

Adjective or adverb, which one?
She puts her glasses down ...

1. careful
2. carefully

Adjective or adverb, which one?
They make ......... bread.

1. deliciously
2. delicious

Adjective or adverb, which one?
She plays the piano ......

1. well
2. good

Put the word in brackets as an adjective or an adverb.
Sharon is a ________(good) dancer.

Put the word on brackets in the correct form.
They have an _______(expensive) car.

Put the word in brackets in the correct form.
It was a ______(real) close match.

Put the word in brackets in the correct form.
The flowers looked ______(beautiful)

Adjectives give us information about ....

1. nouns
2. verbs and nouns
3. verbs, nouns and adverbs

Adverbs gives us more information about....

1. nouns
2. verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
3. only verbs
4. verbs and nouns

Continue with

U5: L5 Ex. 4, 5 & 6 

What did you learn today? Please give me a sentence.

I feel confident in using adjectives and adverbs

1. Totally
2. Not yet
3. I understand adjectives but not adverbs
4. I understand adverbs but not adjectives