Adverb Notes
Definition
•
An adverb is a word that modifies
a verb, an adjective, or another
adverb
Adverbs answer the
following questions:
Where? How often? or how long?
When? To What extent?
How? or how much?
Examples
Examples
1.
The sprinter ran swiftly.
[The adverb
swiftly modifies the verb ran and hells
how.]
2.
I read the funny pages early on
Sunday morning.
[The adverb early
modifies the adjective small and tells
to what extent.]
Examples
3. Jolene was comforting a very small child.
[The
adverb very modifies the adjective small and
tells to what extent.]
4. The fire blazed too wildly for anyone to enter.
[The adverb too modifies the adverb wildly and
tells to what extent. The adverb wildly
modifies the verb modifies the verb blazed and
tells how.]
Examples
5. Dad will sometimes quote from Archbishop
Desmond Tutu’s speech.
[The adverb
sometimes modifies the verb will quote and
tells how often.]
6. Put the apples there, and we will eat them
later.
[The adverb there modifies the verb put
and tells where. The adverb later modifies the
verb will eat and tells when.]
Words Often Used as
Adverbs
Where?
•
Away
•
Here
•
Inside
•
There
•
Up
When?
•
Later
•
Now
•
Soon
•
Then
•
Tomorrow
How?
•
Clearly
•
Easily
•
Quietly
•
Slowly
How often? or how long?
•
Always
•
Usually
•
Continuously
•
Never
•
Forever
•
Briefly
To what extent? or How
much?
•
Almost
•
So
•
Too
•
More
•
Least
•
Extremely
•
Quite
•
Very
•
Not
Take Note
Take Note
The word not is nearly always used
as an adverb modifying a verb.
When not is part of a contraction,
as in hadn’t, aren’t, and didn’t, the
–n’t is still an adverb and is not
part of the verb.
Document Outline
- Adverb Notes
- Definition
- Adverbs answer the following questions:
- Examples
- Slide 5
- Slide 6
- Words Often Used as Adverbs
- Where?
- When?
- How?
- How often? or how long?
- To what extent? or How much?
- Take Note
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