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Adjectives and Adverbs
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Adjectives and Adverbs

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Aim of this lesson
You know:
  • the difference between adjectives and adverbs
  • how to form them
  • how to use them

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Adjectives 


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.

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Adjectives are used after a copula or verbs of the senses

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

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Adverbs 
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

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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.


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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. 




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An adverb can describe:
4. A SENTENCE
Honestly, I don't understand what you are saying

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How are adverbs made
Most adverbs are made by putting -ly after the adjective     
Beautiful - beautifully

Sometimes the spelling is changed. 
Terrible - terribly
Easy - easily

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Exceptions 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 , straight
- He's a fast driver, He drives fast






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Exceptions 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








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Max is a ... singer.
A
Good
B
Well

Slide 12 - Quiz


You can ... open the box.
A
Easy
B
Easily
C
Easyly

Slide 13 - Quiz


He drives the car ...
A
Carefully
B
Careful

Slide 14 - Quiz


Jamie Oliver cooks ...
A
Fantastic
B
Fantasticly
C
Fantastically

Slide 15 - Quiz


This hamburger tastes ...
A
Awful
B
Awfully

Slide 16 - Quiz


Madonna is a ... singer.
A
Terribly
B
Terrible

Slide 17 - Quiz


That pizza smells ...
A
Nicely
B
Nice

Slide 18 - Quiz

Write down 3 things you have learnt from this lesson

Slide 19 - Open question

Tell me what is still unclear about adjectives and adverbs

Slide 20 - Open question

Slide 21 - Link