Unit 3 grammar: adjectives and adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Adjectives and Adverbs

Aim of this lesson

You know:

• the difference between adjectives and adverbs
  
• how to form them
  
• how to use them

Adjectives and Adverbs

(bijvoegelijke naamwoorden en bijwoorden)

1. Frank is a good singer 

2. My brother is a careful driver.

An adjective describes something or someone, it says something about the noun (zelfstandig naamwoord). 

Adjectives and Adverbs

1. Frank sings well. 

2. My brother drives carefully.

Adverbs (Bijwoorden) beschrijven andere woorden. Ze geven aan hoe iets wordt gedaan. Ze slaan dan ook vaak terug op een werkwoord dat in de zin wordt genoemd. Frank zingt mooi. Zingt is het werkwoord.

An adverb can also describe an adjective.

1. Frank is an extremely good singer.

2. My brother is an awfully careful driver.

3. It's an absolutely perfect video clip.

An adverb can also describe anothe adverb in the sentence.

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed extremely perfectly. 

To summarize

Een bijwoord verwijst naar een van de volgende dingen.

1. Een werkwoord

2. Een bijvoeglijk naamwoord

3. Een ander bijwoord

-ly

Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly after the adjective.

Beautiful - beautifully

Remember! Sometimes the spelling of the adverb changes. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

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

Pay attention!

If you use a 'verb of the senses' (een zingtuiglijk werkwoord, waarmee je iets doet met je zintuigen), you use an adjective where you should normally use an adverb. 

Your senses are your eyes, nose, mouth, fingers and ears, so 'verbs of the senses' are: see, smell, taste, feel, hear

For example: 

The song sounds beautiful. (not beautifully). 

The softness of your jacket feels good. (not well)

Which one is the adjective?

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

Max is a ... singer.

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