26-05-2021 Adverbs

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

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Adjectives: voor het zelfstandig naamwoord

An adjective describes something or somebody.. It defines the noun. (You can find the noun by putting an article (a, an, the) before the word.

Adam is a good singer.

Frank has got a red car.

Adjectives: na koppelww of zintuiglijk ww

After copulas like to be, to seem and verbs of the senses like to feel, to look, to smell, to sound, to  taste we use an adjective.

1. My teachers are nice. 

2. That car looks beautiful. 

3. Haggis smells awful. 

Adverbs (bijwoord)

Adverbs can describe other words. It answers the question How something is done.

Adverbs can describe:

1 VERBS

1. Frank sings beautifully 

2. My brother drives carefully. 

An adverb can describe: 

2 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 describe:

3. ANOTHER ADVERB

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed extremely perfectly. 

An adverb can describe:

4. A SENTENCE

Honestly, I don't understand what you are saying

Hoe maak je adverbs?

Most adverbs are made by putting -ly after the adjective     

Beautiful - beautifully

Sometimes the spelling is changed. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

Automatic - automatically

Uitzonderingen adverbs

There are also irregular forms. For instance: the adverb of good is well. 

He is a good performer. He performs well. 

Some adverbs have the same form as the adjectives such as:

Fast (fastly doesn't exist), fair. low ,high, hard, long, late

- He's a fast driver, He drives fast. 

Uitzonderingen adverbs

Of course the adverb hardly does exist but the meaning is different:

He works hard. - This means that he does a lot of work

He works hardly-This means that he doesn't do a lot of work

Max is a ... singer.

1. Good
2. Well

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

This hamburger tastes ...

1. Awful
2. Awfully

Madonna is a ... singer.

1. Terribly
2. Terrible

That pizza smells ...

1. Nicely
2. Nice

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