Transcript Adverbs

Adverbs
Adverbs modify
verbs
adjectives
other adverbs
quantifiers
and
whole sentences
They answer the questions
How?
When?
Where?
How often?
How sure?
Adverbs that modify verbs can go
in several different places in a
sentence.
At the beginning
At the end
After the helping verb
Adverbs that modify adjectives and
other adverbs go directly before the
words they modify.
She is always late.
Add –ly to adjectives to form many
adverbs.
Quick – quickly
careful – carefully
nice – nicely
easy - easily
Children learn new languages
easily.
He speaks English very well.
Many adverbs do not end in –ly.
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Fast
Here
Late
Often
Now
There
Sometimes
Today
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Upstairs
Downstairs
Very
Well
Yesterday
Inside
Outside
Always
Adverbs of possibility tell how
sure we are about something
certainly, definitely, probably,
perhaps, maybe, possibly
Position of adverbs of
possibility
Perhaps and maybe are at the
beginning of the sentence
The others go after the subject and be
but before other main verbs
Perhaps we should eat in the
cafeteria today.
I certainly want you in the next
class.