Adverbs, adjectives and comparison

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Adjectives, adverbs and comparisons 

By: Suze en Nina

Lesson aims

•  After this lesson you feel ready to do the grammar test

Adjectives

- Answers the 'what' question

- Says something about a noun (zelfstandig naamwoord) 

Example: 

The car was loud

What was the car? 

Adverbs

- Answers the 'how' question

- Says something about a word that is not a noun

Example:

The singer sings beautifully

How does the singer sing?

Exceptions

- Sense verbs (see, hear, smell, feel, taste, touch) 

- Good becomes well, not goodly 

The dog is ........

1. Scare
2. Scared
3. Scardly
4. Scarily

Which of the words in capital letters are adjectives?

1. The BLUE car crashed
2. The tea is HOT
3. The lady is MYSTERIOUS
4. All of the above

The flowers smell ....

1. Nice
2. Nicely
3. Nicly
4. Nicelly

Which of the words in capital letters are adverbs?

1. The dog walked QUICK
2. The food tasted DELICIOUSLY
3. The singer sings BEAUTIFULLY
4. All of the above

Comparisons

• If something is different you use ... than
• If a word has one or two syllables add -er/-est 
• Faster than 

• If a word has three or more syllables put more or most in front of the word

Comparisons

• If something is equal (gelijk), you use as .... as 
• She is as tall as me

Exceptions:

bad - worse - worst

good - better - best 

She is .......... me

1. Happyer than
2. Happier then
3. Happiest then
4. Happier than

Harry Styles is ........ Marco Borsato

1. talenteder than
2. More talented than
3. More talenteder than
4. More talented as

Harry Potter is as .......... Voldemort

1. Powerfully as
2. Powerful as
3. Powerful than
4. Powerful ass

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Follow up

Study for your grammar test by:

• Looking at the theory in LearnBeat
• Doing the grammar exercises in LearnBeat
• Doing additional grammar exercises <-- click here