English
Adjectives and adverbials:
Adjectives versus adverbs:
Adjectives:
For example:
He is a bad boy
Use:
- Na een pronoun
For example:
I, you, he/ she/ it, we, you, they – me, you, he/ she/ it, us, you, them – my,
your, him, her, it, our, your, their – mine, yours, his/ her/ its, ours, yours, theirs
– myself, yourself, himself/ herself/ itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
- Na een koppelwerkwoord (werkwoorden die zeggen hoe iets is, lijkt, wordt,
voelt, hoort, proeft en ruikt)
For example:
To be (is), to seem (seems), to become (becomes), to look (looks), to
feel (feels), to sound (sounds), to taste (tastes) or to smell (smells),
to appear (appears), to get (gets), to grow (grows), to prove (proves),
to remain (remains), to resemble (resembles), to stay (stays), to turn
(turns) .
Watch out:
Als erna het koppelwerkwoord nog iets komt, dan is het een adverb
For example:
Axel is amazingly good with animals.
It’s terribly cold.
The door was badly painted.
The room is cleverly organised.
He’s acted unbelievably stupidly in the past years.
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,Adverbs:
For example:
He acted very badly
Use:
- Een werkwoord (verbs)
For example:
He works slowly
- Een adjectief (adjectives)
For example:
He speaks very calmly
- Een bijwoord (adverb)
For example:
The boy played very terribly.
Form van adverb:
- Adjective + ly
For example:
quick → quickly; serious → seriously; careful → carefully; quiet → quietly;
heavy → heavily; bad → badly
Watch out:
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in –ly.
For example:
friendly, lively, elderly, lonely, silly, lovely
He is a friendly man (= adjective)
He greets us in a friendly way (= adjective)
Watch out:
Some words are an adjective and an adverb:
For example:
fast, loud, daily, seldom (= most an adverb)
Adverbs versus adverbials (= functie van het woord in de zin):
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, Adverb:
Bestaat uit 1 woord (= bijwoord)
For example:
She sings beautifully
Adverbials:
Bestaat uit 1 of meer woorden, heeft een syntactische functie (=
bijwoordelijke bepaling)
For example:
John lives in a very beautiful house.
Tip:
To find adverbials, ask questions:
1. Adverbial of manner → how
For example:
very well, even better, lonely
2. Adverbial of place → where
For example:
In England, in a flat, there
3. Adverbial of duration → how long
For example:
for more than ten years
4. Adverbial of frequency → many times
For example:
often, again
5. Adverbial of direction → to where
For example:
to London, to Belgium
6. Adverbial of time → when
For example:
now, last week
Position of adverbs and adverbials in sentence:
= Manner, (direction), place, (duration), (frequency) and time
Tip:
Van klein naar groot
- End-position = neutral position:
Manner, place and time
For example:
She played beautifully at the concert last night.
- Mid-position:
o Before the main verb:
For example:
Then he usually went to this grandson in Church Street.
o Between the auxiliary and the verb:
For example:
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Adjectives and adverbials:
Adjectives versus adverbs:
Adjectives:
For example:
He is a bad boy
Use:
- Na een pronoun
For example:
I, you, he/ she/ it, we, you, they – me, you, he/ she/ it, us, you, them – my,
your, him, her, it, our, your, their – mine, yours, his/ her/ its, ours, yours, theirs
– myself, yourself, himself/ herself/ itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
- Na een koppelwerkwoord (werkwoorden die zeggen hoe iets is, lijkt, wordt,
voelt, hoort, proeft en ruikt)
For example:
To be (is), to seem (seems), to become (becomes), to look (looks), to
feel (feels), to sound (sounds), to taste (tastes) or to smell (smells),
to appear (appears), to get (gets), to grow (grows), to prove (proves),
to remain (remains), to resemble (resembles), to stay (stays), to turn
(turns) .
Watch out:
Als erna het koppelwerkwoord nog iets komt, dan is het een adverb
For example:
Axel is amazingly good with animals.
It’s terribly cold.
The door was badly painted.
The room is cleverly organised.
He’s acted unbelievably stupidly in the past years.
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,Adverbs:
For example:
He acted very badly
Use:
- Een werkwoord (verbs)
For example:
He works slowly
- Een adjectief (adjectives)
For example:
He speaks very calmly
- Een bijwoord (adverb)
For example:
The boy played very terribly.
Form van adverb:
- Adjective + ly
For example:
quick → quickly; serious → seriously; careful → carefully; quiet → quietly;
heavy → heavily; bad → badly
Watch out:
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in –ly.
For example:
friendly, lively, elderly, lonely, silly, lovely
He is a friendly man (= adjective)
He greets us in a friendly way (= adjective)
Watch out:
Some words are an adjective and an adverb:
For example:
fast, loud, daily, seldom (= most an adverb)
Adverbs versus adverbials (= functie van het woord in de zin):
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, Adverb:
Bestaat uit 1 woord (= bijwoord)
For example:
She sings beautifully
Adverbials:
Bestaat uit 1 of meer woorden, heeft een syntactische functie (=
bijwoordelijke bepaling)
For example:
John lives in a very beautiful house.
Tip:
To find adverbials, ask questions:
1. Adverbial of manner → how
For example:
very well, even better, lonely
2. Adverbial of place → where
For example:
In England, in a flat, there
3. Adverbial of duration → how long
For example:
for more than ten years
4. Adverbial of frequency → many times
For example:
often, again
5. Adverbial of direction → to where
For example:
to London, to Belgium
6. Adverbial of time → when
For example:
now, last week
Position of adverbs and adverbials in sentence:
= Manner, (direction), place, (duration), (frequency) and time
Tip:
Van klein naar groot
- End-position = neutral position:
Manner, place and time
For example:
She played beautifully at the concert last night.
- Mid-position:
o Before the main verb:
For example:
Then he usually went to this grandson in Church Street.
o Between the auxiliary and the verb:
For example:
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