ADVERBSDegrees - Positive, Comparative, Superlative

Interrogative Adverbs

Adverbs VS. Adjectives

Adverbs VS. Direct Objects

ADVERB LIST

WHAT IS AN ADVERB?

Adverbs modify three things:VerbsAdjectivesOther Adverbs

An adverb tells you many things:How?When?Where?Why?How Much (to what extent)?

ADVERBS MODIFY VERBS Adverbs modify verbs, answering the questions

How? Worked quietly

Where?The soldiers marched forward

When? She visits often

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ADVERBS MODIFY ADJECTIVES

Adverbs modify adjectives, answering the questionTo what extent

The light was very bright

The barrel was almost full

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ADVERBS MODIFY ADVERBS

Adverbs modify adverbs, answering the question To what extent

He walked very slowly

The movie finished too abruptly

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ADVERBS VS. ADJECTIVES

Adjectives modify NOUNSUsed as a complement after a linking

verb

Adverbs modify VERBS, ADJECTIVES, and OTHER ADVERBS

Never can be used as a complement

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DEGREES OF ADVERBS

Positive = No comparison

Comparative = Compares two people or things

Superlative = Compares more than two people or things

MODIFYING ADVERBS

All adverbs that have an “ly” ending form their comparative and superlative forms by adding the adverbs more or most in front of it.

AFFIRMATION AND NEGATION

Tell whether or not a fact is true

Negation Adverbs = Nowhere, Scarcely, Not, Never

Affirmation Adverbs = Yes, No

INTERROGATIVE ADVERBS

Answers the questions

How? Where did you put my book?

Where? When did you visit grandma?

Why? Why did you fail that last exam?

When? How did you work that problem?

ADVERBS VS. NOUNS

Nouns (Direct objects) answer the question WHAT? or WHO?He bought some vegetables. (answers

What?)She visits Devin. (answers Who?)

Adverbs answer the question HOW?, WHERE?, WHY?, and WHEN?He went home. (answers Where?)I left last week. (answers When?)

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