Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Adjectives and adverbs of manner and degree Grammar For more details see  G 6 Modifying with adjectives and adverbs of manner and degree • Adjectives define nouns or pronouns more closely. Young people often download digital music from the internet. Downloading music from the internet is often illegal . • After verbs like look (for aussehen ), feel, smell, taste, sound, seem, become, get (for werden ) we use an adjective. The cake tasted awful . The music sounded good . • Adverbs of manner and degree define verbs, adjectives and adverbs more closely. “I am the best singer in the world,” she thought happily . Music is easily accessible on the internet. The guitarist played extremely fast. • Adverbs of manner commonly add -ly to the adjective. However, many adjectives ending in -ly (friendly, silly, …) change into “in a … way”: He talked to the children in a friendly way . • Sometimes adjectives and adverbs have the same form. Here are some examples: daily  daily fast  fast late  late right  right early  early hard  hard long  long straight  straight • Exception: good  well G Tip Remember hard = hart Many children have to work hard to pass their tests. They have so much to learn. hardly = kaum He hardly works at home. He almost always works in his office. T Finding adverbs of manner and degree Take a look at the text “How to make music in your bedroom” on pages 74–75 again and highlight all adverbs of manner and degree you can find. Compare in class. Adverb or adjective? Fill in the correct forms. e lead singer is such a powerful woman, a 1 (real) highlight. eir songs, however, make people 2 (quite – angry) because of their strange lyrics. e weather on the day of the concert will remain 3 (total – dry) . e singer’s voice sounded 4 (extreme – weak) . A œre had destroyed the stage 5 (complete) . Within one year the group became very 6 (famous) . What a 7 (grave) mistake to include this band in the lineup. It sounds 8 (terrible) . e lyrics of their songs don’t touch me 9 (emotional) . To my friends they also seem 10 (rather – provocative) . e good thing was that the sound of the bands could 11 (hard) be heard because of the storm. 1 2 77 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv