Adjectives and Adverbs

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Adjectives and Adverbs

Wat gaan we doen vandaag?

* adjectives & adverbs

* Na de meivakantie -> Boekpresentaties

  Maak groepjes van 2. samen lezen jullie hetzelfde boek. 

  In de eerste week na de meivakantie zullen jullie een presentatie    houden over het boek.

* 5.1  opdrachten 5 t/m 9

  hw volgende les; 5.1 afmaken (ga controleren)

Aim of this lesson

You know:

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

Adjectives and Adverbs

(bijvoegelijke naamwoorden en bijwoorden)

1. Frank is a good singer 

2. My brother is a careful driver.

An adjective describes something or someone, it says something about tne noun. 

Adjectives and Adverbs

1. Frank sings well. 

2. My brother drives carefully.

Adverbs (Bijwoorden) can describe other words. An adverb says, for example, how something has happened or how something is done. It tells you something about the verb.

An adverb can also describe an adjective.

1. Frank is an incredibly talented singer.

2. My brother is an awfully careful driver.

3. It's an absolutely perfect video clip.

An adverb can also describe anothe adverb in the sentence.

1. Frank sings absolutely beautifully.

2. My brother drives really well.

3. That clip was filmed absolutely perfectly. 

-ly

Most adverbs are formed by adding -ly after the adjective.

Beautiful - beautifully       the beautiful girl sings beautifully

Remember! Sometimes the spelling of the adverb changes. 

Terrible - terribly

Easy - easily

Irregular  adverbs

There are also irregular adverbs. The adverb for good is  well - She's a good performer. She performs well. 

A few adverbs have the same form as the adjective.

Fast (snel), fair (sportief/eerlijk), low, high, hard, long, late, loud  and straight (onmiddelijk) - He's a fast driver, He 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

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