Adverbs vs adjectives

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Today

You can tell the difference between adjectives and adverbs in English.

They live in a beautiful house.
He writes meaningless letters.
This glass is breakable.

Can you give me
some more examples?

He ran quickly.
She spoke softly.
James coughed loudly to attract her attention.

Adjectives

-  Bijvoegelijke naamwoorden

- Say something about a noun (person, animal or a thing): 
   the careful driver, the angry teacher, 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
- Say something about verbs, adjectives or other words. Except nouns. 

    she drove carefully, it rained heavily,
    incredibly quickly, surprisingly easy

-  +ly  is the key  (quick > quickly, careful > carefully)

You add -ly to the end of a word:

- extreme > extremely

exceptions:

- words ending with -le get -ly instead adorable > adorably

- consonants (medeklinkers) + y get -ily heavy > heavily

- words ending with -ic get - ally automatic > automatically

More exceptions

- 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)

Adjective

- says something about a noun (zelfstandig naamwoord)

the BIG house, the RED car

Adverb

- An adverb describes a verb or anything apart from a noun and pronoun: "That boy speaks so loudly!"

Some horses are _______

1. Dangerous
2. Dangerously

Don't use that saddle it doesn't seem _______

1. safe
2. safely

A tortoise walks

1. slow
2. slowly

Jason speaks English very ...

1. good
2. well

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

1. perfect
2. perfectly

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

1. hard
2. hardly

Our team lost the game because we played very ...

1. bad
2. badly

He looked at me ______

1. Angry
2. Angrily

Kevin is ... clever.

1. extreme
2. extremely

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

1. awful
2. awfully

You shouldn't speak so ... I can't understand you.

1. fast
2. fastly

You can ... do this if you put some effort into it.

1. easy
2. easily

14. Robin looks so ... What's the matter with him?

1. sad
2. sadly

16. Maria opened her present ...

1. slow
2. slowly

17. She worked really ... to pass the test.

1. hard
2. hardly

18. He was expelled because he was extremely ... to one of his teachers.

1. impolite
2. impolitely

19. Can you speak more ..., please?

1. loud
2. loudly

20. It's ... cold today. You should really wear a sweater today.

1. awful
2. awfully

Adverbs

Adjectives

Adverb or Adjective?
      (20 points)

Magnificent

Never

Heroic

Always

Sadly

Bad

Amazingly

Horrible

Terribly