Unit 7: Adverbs and Adjectives

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Adjectives and Adverbs

Aim of this lesson

You know:

• the difference between adjectives and adverbs
  
• how to form them
  
• how to use them
  

Adjectives (bijvoeglijk nmw)

1. Frank is a good singer 

2. My brother is a careful driver.

An adjective modifies a noun (zelfstandig naamwoord). It tells us something about the noun.

Adverbs (bijwoord)

1. Frank sings well. 

2. My brother drives carefully.

An adverb (Bijwoord) can modify other words. It tells us for example how something happens, how often and in what manner. It can tell us something about an adjective, other adverb, verb or part of a sentence even! 

DUS...

Ron is a careful driver.

Ron drives carefully.

Linking verbs + Adjective

1. My teachers are nice.

2. That car looks beautiful.

3. Haggis smells awful.

After linking verbs  (koppelwerkwoorden) :  be, seem, appear, become and words like feel, smell, taste  we use an adjective to modify the subject.

Linking verb / Action verb?

Some verbs, such as appear, look, feel, smell, and taste, can alsy be used as action verbs. 

• If the modifier tells about the subject, use an adjective. 
• If the modifier tells about the action of the verb, not the subject, use an adverb.
  

  

Adjective:    She looks confident in her new job.

Adverb:    She looks confidently at all the assembled partners.

Adjective:  The steak smells bad.

Adverb:  The chef smelled the lobster appreciatively.

I tasted the soup carefully. 

It tasted awful. 

The dog smells good

The dog smells well. 

He looked suspicious

He looked suspiciously. 

An adverb can also tell us something about 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 also tell us something about another adverb. 

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed extremely perfectly. 

An adverb can also tell us something about a sentence.

1. "Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." -Mark Twain

2. "Fortunately, Ned was invited to a surprise party. Unfortunately, the party was a thousand miles away. Fortunately, a friend loaned Ned an airplane. Unfortunately, the motor exploded. Fortunately, there was a parachute in the airplane," (Charlip 1993).

-ly

You can form most adverbs by putting -ly after the word.

Beautiful - beautifully

Watch out! Sometimes you have to change the spelling of the word.

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

adverbs

There are irregular adverbs as well! The adverb of good is  well - She's a good performer. She performs well. 

Some adverbs are the same as their adjectives. 

Fast (snel), fair (sportief/eerlijk), low (laag), high (hoog), hard (hard), long (lang), late (laat), loud (luid) en straight (onmiddelijk) - He's a fast driver, He drives fast. 

bijwoord

He calls her daily.

She always gets up early.

I can jump really high.

The plane flew low.

She can run far.

He can run fast.

You spelled that word wrong.

She behaves strange.

bijv naamwoord

This is a daily newspaper.

Let's take the early train.

That ceiling is high.

This is a low ceiling.

The far end of the hallway.

This is a fast car.

That's the wrong word.

That's a strange girl.

The teacher was given an absolutely wonderful meal that was delicious and well-cooked.

absolutely

wonderful

delicious

well-cooked

Adjective

Adverb

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

The girl sings really ___!

1. fantastic
2. fantastically
3. fantasticly

___, my mum will buy me some birthday presents!

1. Hopeful
2. Hopefully

Vinny plays rugby very ___.

1. good
2. well

Hermione ___ answered the question.

1. happy
2. happily

It is a ______ day today. The class is _______ loud.

1. terrible, terribly
2. terribly, terrible
3. terrible, terrible
4. terribly, terribly

She is a great singer. She sings the song _____.

1. good
2. well

Don't speak so ____. I don't understand.

1. fast
2. fastly

Beyoncé looks ___ fabulous, doesn't she?

1. incredible
2. incredibly

After the accident, the bus driver was _____ injured.

1. serious
2. seriously

The tajine smells _____.

1. good
2. well.

Kevin is _____ clever.

1. extreme
2. extremely

Our basketball team played _____ last Friday.

1. bad
2. badly

How well do you understand adverbs and adjectives now?

1. Extremely well, I could teach classes on it.
2. Fairly well, but I do have a few questions left
3. A little bit, I want you to explain it again
4. I feel terrible about it, please help!