Adjectives & Adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Adjectives (bijvoeglijke naamwoorden)

- Zeggen iets over een zelfstandig naamwoord: 
   the careful driver, the teacher is angry, a beautiful dress

- Soms twee vormen: 
   This job is boring / interesting / tiring / annoying (= over ding)
   I am bored / interested / tired / annoyed (= over persoon)

Adverbs (bijwoorden)

- Zeggen iets over werkwoorden (1) , bijvoeglijke naamwoorden (2) en bijwoorden (3). 

1) She drove carefully, it rained heavily,

2) I am very angry. She is wearing an extremely long dress.

3) incredibly quickly, surprisingly easy

- Adverbs maak je MEESTAL door -ly achter het bijvoeglijk naamwoord te  zetten  (quick > quickly, careful > carefully)

Uitzonderingen

- Je gebruikt ook adjectives i.p.v. adverbs bij werkwoorden zoals
   be / feel / look / taste / sound / smell / seem
   I am tired, she is hungry, you look tired, you smell nice

- Een aantal adverbs maak je niet met -ly: 
   good > well          the good dog, you did well
   fast > fast             the fast car, he ran fast                 ('hardly' =
   hard > hard          the hard test, he tried hard          nauwelijks)

1. Mike stays in shape by playing tennis ...

1. regular
2. regularly

2. You shouldn't go up that ladder. It doesn't seem ...

1. safe
2. safely

3. Everything was really quiet. There was ... silence.

1. complete
2. completely

4. Jason speaks English very ...

1. good
2. well

5. I tried on the shoes and they fit me ...

1. perfect
2. perfectly

6. I tried really ... to remember his name, but I couldn't.

1. hard
2. hardly

7. He looked at me ... when I broke his watch.

1. Angry
2. Angrily

8. The bus driver was ... injured.

1. serious
2. seriously

9. Maria ... opened her present.

1. slow
2. slowly

10. This hamburger tastes ... ! What's in it?

1. awful
2. awfully

11. Jack is ... upset about losing his phone

1. terrible
2. terribly

12. The man became ... when the manager asked him to leave

1. violent
2. violently

13. The English test was ... easy.

1. surprising
2. surprisingly

14. It was raining ... when I got to the station

1. heavy
2. heavily

15. Nobody knew he was coming. He arrived very ...

1. unexpected
2. unexpectedly

TekstDrag the adverb to the right place: nearly

She 

had

lost

her notebook

nearly

Drag the adverb to the right place:  (slowly) 

Mother

closed

the door

slowly