22-03 unit 5 adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Aan het eind van de les:

Weten/kunnen we:

- Wat het verschil is tussen een adverb en een adjective

- Een zin maken met een adverb (en een adjective)

An adverb says something about a verb.

He         talked         nervously.

            verb              adverb

Adverbs

You use adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs

• You Form adverbs by adding -ly, -y, -ily to adjectives

Example: slow -> slowly

 Note: Some adverbs and adjectives have the same spelling: 

Example: hard, fast, late, early. 

He is a fast runner/He runs fast.

Adjectives

loud

slow

dangerous

bad

easy

Adverbs

loudly

slowly

dangerously

badly

easily

adverb = adjective + ly

adjective:    the beautiful girl

adverb:         she sings beautifully

Be careful!!

                      adjective -le             =             adverb -ly

                        terrible                                       terribly

Be careful!!

    adjective:  medeklinker +y (easy)

    adverb:       ily (easily)

Be careful!!

    adjective:  ends with -ic (fantastic)

    adverb:       +ally (fantastically)

This painting is beautiful / beautifully drawn.

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

We haven't worked very ... ...

1. hardly lately
2. hard late
3. hard lately
4. hardly late

The hulk is so strong, he can ... lift a car.

1. easy
2. easily

They learn English ______. They think English is an ______ language.

1. easy, easy
2. easy, easily
3. easily, easy
4. easily, easily

I ...... disagree. (strong)

1. Strong
2. Strongly
3. Strongerly
4. Stongiliy

The gardner was ... whistling a tune.

1. happy
2. happily

28) 5. Society is (slow/slowly) realising that the problems need to be solved very (quick/quickly).

He drove .... slowly (awful)

Short story