Transcript Adverb-Rules 1

The Adverb
The different use of adjectives and
adverbs
The Adverb
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Adjectives modify (beschreiben,
näher bestimmen) nouns and
pronouns:
Mr Jones is a careful driver.
Why are you nervous before a test?
The Adverb
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Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives or
other adverbs:
Mr Jones drives carefully, especially at night.
You are extremely nervous before a test, aren't you?
The new actor played fairly well.
The Adverb
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Use an adjective (not an adverb) after
certain verbs:
to be; to become, grow, turn, get (= werden); to
feel; to look (= aussehen); taste, smell; sound,
seem
Use an Adjective!
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She is angry.
Our new classmate is becoming more and more
popular.
The noise grew louder. He is growing fat.
The milk will turn bad (sour) if you don't put it in
the fridge.
The grass is getting high.
This volleyball feels hard.
Use an Adjective!
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Your test looks good.
The apple-pie tastes delicious.
This bread smells fresh.
The old records sound terrible on my new recordplayer.
Grandma seemed tired after the journey.
The formation of adverbs
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slow-ly, nice-ly, careful-ly, ...
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'le' is dropped: probable - probably, simple - simply,
possible - possibly, ...
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'y' changes to 'i': happy - happily, angry – angrily, ...
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friendly - in a friendly way
silly
- in a silly way/stupidly