H5 - adjectives and adverbs

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Adjectives and adverbs
What is the difference between an adjective (bijv. nw) and an adverb (bijw.)?

Ellen is beautiful
Ellen sings beautifully

Daan is a good piano player
Daan plays the piano well

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Adjectives
An adjective describes someone or something
It says something about a noun (zelfstandig naamwoord)

The cat is very fat
The bicycle is red
Mike is a good student

Says something about what a person/thing is

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Adjectives
You can ask the question: ‘wat voor…?’

Het uitzicht was prachtig                                (wat voor uitzicht was het?)    
The view was wonderful

Het zijn goede muzikanten                            (wat voor muzikanten zijn het?) 
They are good musicians



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Adjectives
Adjectives with number use hyphens (streepjes dus...)

An eight-year-old boy
A 30-minute walk
A seven-week holiday

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Adverbs
Adverbs say something about words other than nouns 
An adverb describes how/in what way something happens
It often says something about a verb

My brother smiles happily
The dog barks loudly
Jane works quickly

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Adverbs
You can ask the question: ‘Hoe …?’

We speelden niet slecht                   (hoe speelden jullie?) 
We didn’t play badly

Karin had alles perfect geregeld  (hoe had Karin alles geregeld?) Karin had organised everything perfectly


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Adverbs
Adverbs can say something about other adverbs

Frank sings absolutely beautifully
My brother drives very carefully
That clip was filmed extremely well


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Adverbs
Adverbs can say something about a phrase or sentence

Surely, that was a mistake
Fortunately, I had been able to reach him

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How to form an adverb
Put -ly after the adjective
  • Sure – surely, beautiful – beautifully

Sometimes the spelling changes:
y -> ily            easy – easily
le -> ly            probable– probably

Watch out: The adverb of 'good' is 'well'

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Adjectives & Adverbs
Adjectives:
My brother is a careful driver
It’s a perfect video clip
David is a quick writer

Adverbs:
My brother drives carefully
The video clip was filmed perfectly
David writes quickly



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Adjectives & Adverbs
Check:
Does it say something about a noun? Then it's an adjective.

Does it say something about any other type of word? Then it's an adverb.

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Let's practice
For the next couple of questions, select whether the *word* between the asterisk is an adjective or adverb

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She is a *wonderful* person

A
adjective
B
adverb

Slide 14 - Quiz

I have a *fantastic* brother
A
adjective
B
adverb

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Steven learns very *quickly*

A
adjective
B
adverb

Slide 16 - Quiz

Those were some *easy* questions
A
adjective
B
adverb

Slide 17 - Quiz

Mark sings *well*
A
adjective
B
adverb

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My new bicycle is *extremely* beautiful
A
adjective
B
adverb

Slide 19 - Quiz

Confusing adjectives & adverbs
Watch out: friendly, silly, lovely, unlikely are adjectives, not adverbs!

If you want to use them as adverbs, you need to use 'way' or 'manner'
  • He spoke in a very friendly way
  • They acted in a silly manner

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Confusing adjectives & adverbs
Difficult and impossible don't have adverbs, so you need to rephrase

That boy speaks with great difficulty
I can’t possibly visit you next week

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Confusing adjectives & adverbs
Words can be both adverbs and adjectives
This counts for words ending in –ly: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, early
  • It’s a daily paper                  It comes out daily
  • We took an early bus        We got up early

It also counts for: high, low, far, fast, wrong, strange

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Confusing adjectives & adverbs
Adjectives and their adverbs can have different meanings

Short – shortly
Hard – hardly
High – highly
Late – lately

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Confusing adjectives & adverbs
After verbs that deal with the senses (smell, taste, look etc), you use an adjective

Your chocolates tasted very good
She looked bad

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Let's practice!
Fill in the correct form of the word in brackets

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You didn't do your work ____ (correct).

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The teacher spoke to us ____ (friendly).

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Sorry! I acted ____ (stupid).

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That cake is decorated ____ (extreme) beautifully.

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Tim is a very ____ (hard) worker.

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Exercises
Now show what you know!

§1.3 ex. 11

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