25 1 What’s your story? GRAMMAR 18 Work with adverbs Read the text: The doctor was bending over me. In his hand he held that long shiny steel instrument. He held it right in front of my face, and to this day Ican still describe it perfectly. It was about the thickness and length of a pencil, and like most pencils it had a lot of sides to it. Toward the end, the metal became much thinner, and at the very end of the thin bit of metal there was a tiny blade set at an angle. The blade wasn’t more than a centimetre long, very small, very sharp and very shiny. a) Find the adjectives in the text and write them down. b) Find the adverbs in the text and write them down. 19 Compare adverbs We compare adverbs that end with -ly with more and most. Example: slowly – more slowly – most slowly a) Write adverbs formed from these adjectives: terrible, quick, cruel, weird → Adverbs An adjective describes a noun, for example: He is a happy boy. An adverb is a word that describes, or modifies, a verb, an adjective or another adverb. Examples: He talks happily about his childhood. (describes a verb) The very handsome boy sat next to me. (describes an adjective) He talks very happily about his childhood. (describes another adverb) Many adverbs end with -ly: slowly, quickly, brutally, beautifully, strangely Adverbs can also show where something happened (here, in, somewhere) and when something happened (tomorrow, now, always). Hæfniviðmið • Sýnt góð tök á orða- forða, meginreglum málnotkunar og notað tengiorð við hæfi.
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