Adjectives and adverbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Today's Goals 

• To know the difference between adjectives and adverbs 
• To be able to form adverbs from adjectives
• To be able to use them both correctly in sentences

What is an adjective? What does it do?

Adjective - bijvoeglijk naamwoorden

• Before a noun 

He is a slow driver = slow tells us what kind of driver he is

• Or after a linking verb (to be, to feel, to look, to seem) 

That film is fantastic.

Your pizza looks delicious

The soup tastes amazing

What do you think adverbs are? What do they do?
(A clue is in the name)

Adverb - bijwoord

It says more about: verbs, adjectives, other adverbs or the whole sentence. 

(Adverbs answer questions how (manner)? where? when?) 

The children walked quickly along the corridor

Which word is the adverb?

Adverbs cont..

When it is used for a verb it is often close to the verb

The man laughed loudly at the joke. 

She listens really well to people.

Adverbs

Examples:

• My mother sings beautifully.
• My grandmother drives carefully. 
• They filmed it perfectly.

1. My friends dance extremely slowly. 
2. That is an amazingly big building. 

Add = Toevoegen

Verb = Werkwoorden.

Een bijwoord voegt iets toe aan het werkwoord. 

Exreme zegt hier iets over slowly. 

Adjective

quick

bad

slow

careful

heavy

easy

Adverb

quickly

badly

slowly

carefully

heavily

easily

Naarmate je meer naar beneden gaat, zie je dat de spelling verandert. Meer uitleg in volgende slide.

Adverbs - spelling rules

 They often end in -ly 

Ends in '-ic'  +  '-ally' Fantastic = fantastically

Ends in '-y', remove '-y' +  '-ily' Easy = Easily

Ends in '-le' remove the '-e' +  '-y'  Simple = Simply 

However many do not end in -ly: fast, late, hard, always, often 

Uitzonderingen:

good - well

quite - quite

fast - fast

hard - hard

long - long

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'comic' into an adverb

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'soft' into an adverb

Spelling: Turn the adjective 'happy' into an adverb

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

Which one is the adjective?

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

Adjective or adverb, which one?
The garden is .....

1. beautiful
2. beautifully

Adjective or adverb, which one?
She puts her glasses down ...

1. careful
2. carefully

Adjective or adverb, which one?
They make ......... bread.

1. deliciously
2. delicious

Adjective or adverb, which one?
She plays the piano ......

1. well
2. good

Put the word in brackets in the correct form.
It was a ______(real) close match.

Put the word in brackets as an adjective or an adverb.
Sharon is a ________(graceful) dancer.

Put the word on brackets in the correct form.
__________(unfortunate), they missed their connecting flight.

Put the word in brackets in the correct form.
The flowers looked ______(wonderful)

She ....................waited (patient) for him to finish talking.

The crowd gave the band a ...........(warm) welcome.

Adjectives give us information about ....

1. nouns
2. verbs and nouns
3. verbs, nouns and adverbs

Adverbs says something about ..........

1. nouns
2. verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
3. only verbs
4. verbs and nouns

Continue with...

Malmberg - Unit 5, lesson 5

Ex. 7, 8, 9

Finished? Ex 2 & 5

I feel confident in using adjectives and adverbs

1. Totally
2. Not yet
3. I understand adjectives but not adverbs
4. I understand adverbs but not adjectives