Presentation Adverbs

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What is Adverbs?

Adverbs is single-word modifiers.

This means that they describe something.

They describe verbs most of the time. Sometimes they describe adjectives and

other adverbs.


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What are Adverbs?

Most adverbs describe an action verb.

Run is a verb. You could:

run fast

run slow

run backward

run sideways

Fast, slow, backward, sidewaysthese are alladverbs because they describe the action run.


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What are Adverbs?

Some adverbs describe adjectives.Pretty is an adjective.

You could say:

quite prettyreally pretty

not pretty

definitely pretty

Quite, really, not, definitelythese are all adverbs

because they describe the adjective pretty.


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What are Adverbs?

Some adverbs also describe other adverbs.

Cowardly is an adverb.

You could say:very cowardly

never cowardly

always cowardly

thoroughly cowardly

Very, never, always, thoroughlythese areadverbs because they describe other adverbs.


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Types of Adverbs

One type of adverb is the adverb oftime.

Adverbs of time tell when? or howoften? an action occurs.


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Example:

I never saw the movie.

(When did I see it? Never. That means

never is an adverb of time.)Example:

We wrote a story yesterday in class.

(When did we write it? Yesterday. Thatmeans yesterday is an adverb of time.)


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Types of Adverbs

Another type of adverb are adverbs of

place.

Adverbs of place tell where? an action

occurred.


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Example:

Did you put your book there on thetable?

Where did you put your book? There.

That means that there is an adverb.On the table is a prepositional

phrase. It is not an adverb.

Remember that an adverb is asingle-wordmodifier.


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Types of Adverbs

The most common type of adverbs are adverbs

of manner.

Adverbs of manner tell how? or in what

manner? an action has occurred.

Many adverbs of manner end in the letters ly.


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Example:

We walked slowly down the hall.

(How did we walk? Slowly. That

means slowly is an adverb of manner.)


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Types of Adverbs

Adverbs of degree are the hardest type

of adverb to locate in a sentence.

Adverbs of manner tell how much? or to

what degree? something occurs.

Adverbs of manner are often the ones that

describe adjectives or other adverbs.


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Example:

I am very tired.

(To what degree am I tired? Very.Very is an

adverb of manner.)

Example:We were too sleepy to continue theactivity.

(How much were we sleepy? Too. That

means that tooisan adverb of degree.)


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Types of Adverbs

The final type of adverb are adverbs of

affirmation and negation.

The three adverbs of affirmation are:

yes, indeed, undoubtedly

The three adverbs of negation are:

no, not, never

Anytime these words appear in sentences,

they are adverbs.


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Adverb or Adjective?

An ADVERB modifies verbs, adjectives and otheradverbs.

An ADJECTIVE modifies nouns.

Example:The fast car is racing.

(Fast describes car. Car is a noun. The kind of wordthat describes a noun is an adjective; therefore, in thissentence, fast is an adjective.)

Example: The car races fast.(Fast describes how it races. Races is a verb. The kindof word that describes a verb is an adverb; therefore, inthis sentence, fast is an adverb.)


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