Adjectives and Adverbs

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Adjectives and Adverbs

An adjective says something about a noun.

My mom is a                slow                driver.

                                     adjective            noun

An adverb says something about a verb.

He         talked         nervously.

            verb              adverb

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)

Be careful!!

With some verbs  you don't use an adverb but an adjective. 

to be (zijn), to seem , to feel , to smell , 

to sound , to taste, to look

Het ruikt vreselijk. - It smells terrible.

Be careful!!

Some adjectives have a different adverb:

He is a good boy. - He studies well.

Sometimes it stays the same:

Bij fast, long, fair, low, high

That is a fast car. - It drives fast. 

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