5.5 Adjectives & Adverbs

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Adjectives & Adverbs

Adjectives 

1. Zegt iets over een noun (zelfstandig naamwoord)

That's a beautiful car.

He has a red boat.

2. Wordt gebruikt na de volgende werkwoorden: be, taste, smell, look, feel

I feel amazing.

This cake tastes delicous.

You look beautiful.

(Bijvoeglijk naamwoord)

Adverb

1. Zegt iets over een verb (werkwoord)

He plays piano beautifully.

The refferee watches carefully.

2. Zegt iets over een adjective (bijvoeglijk naamwoord)

This is an incredibly difficult exercise.

That was surprisingly easy.

3. Zegt iets over een andere adverb (bijwoord)

She sings really beautifully.

He plays the saxophone incredibly smoothly.

(Bijwoord)

Spellingsregels Adverbs

1. Zet LY achter de adjective

beautiful - beautifully

2. Adjectives die eindigen op Y veranderen in ILY

easy - easily

3. Adjectives die eindigen op LE veranderen in LY

terrible - terribly

4. Adjectives die eindigen op IC krijgen ALLY

fantastic - fantastically

5. Uit je hoofd leren:

fast - fast, long - long - hard - hard, good - well

1. That pitbull looks (angry).

2. She spoke (quiet) .

3. Erica listened (careful) to her mother .

4. Mary makes (careless) mistakes.

5. Children grow (quick)

6. He is very (happy) today.

7. It's raining (heavy) .

8. Morgan was (serious) hurt in a car accident.

9. His situation was very(serious) .

10. He did very (good) on his test.

11. Jane had an (amazing) performance last night.

12. He was (fantastic) quick at solving maths questions.

1. angry
2. quietly
3. carefully
4. careless
5. quickly
6. happy
7. heavily
8. seriously
9. serious
10. well
11. amazing
12. fantastically 

Exercise 1

Change the adjectives into adverbs

Only type the adverb

excited

warm

careful

good

eternal

fantastic

awful

economic

good

bad

Exercise 2

Complete the sentence using the adjective or adverb

1 Janice forgot her school books and ……………………… (quick) drove back home to fetch them.

2 David hurt his foot the other day, and the doctor said it looked really ……………………… (bad).

3 My brother was so busy with his new computer that he ……………………… (hard) noticed what was going on.

4 What's the matter with this Coke? It tastes really ……………………… (awful).

5 Go and have a rest. You shouldn't work so ……………………… (hard).

6 What a ……………………… (beautiful) picture!

7 I woke up at 6 o’clock this morning, because someone was ringing the door bell really ……………………… (loud).

8 I’ve got a great dog. It ……………………… (rare) barks.

9 Don’t drive __ (dangerous). You may hurt someone.

10 Your house is very ___ (close) to mine.

11 The ballerina dances __ (beautiful).

12 The monkey moved __ (quick) from branch to branch.

13 Your sister is being very __ (bad). Please ignore her.

14 Listen ___ (careful) to what I am about to say.

15 You can learn English ___(easy) if you practise every day!

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