Transcript Adverbs - Mass Communication 2k14

Adverbs
• Instructor : Muhammad Akram
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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 time
adverbs of manner
adverbs of frequency
adverbs of possibility
Adverbs of manner tell how
something happens.
Fast, slowly
well, badly
carefully
patiently
right
Position of adverbs of
manner:
After the main verb when there is
no object.
After the verb + object
I speak slowly.
I read the article slowly
Many adverbs of manner are
formed from adjectives + ly
Adjectives that end in –y drop the
-y and add –ily
Adjectives that end in –ic or –ical
add -ally
Irregular forms of adverbs and
adjectives:
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Fast
Hard
Right
Wrong
Loud
Long
Friendly, lively, lovely, lonely
Good, well
Adverbs of place tell where
something is or where it happens.
(location). They also express
where something or someone is
going (direction).
Here, there, up, down, in, out,
inside, together, back, away
Position of adverb of
place:
After the main verb when there is no
object, or after verb + object
Direction adverbs always come after a
pronoun object
We left her here.
We took the children back
We gave back the money.
We took it back.
Adverbs of time tell when
something happens.
Yesterday, tomorrow, afterwards,
now, early, late, then
Position of adverbs of
time.
At the beginning or at the end of
the clause
Early and late go at the end
Yesterday, I took the children to the
movies.
I took the children to the movies
yesterday.
I went home early.
She came late.
Adverbs of frequency tell how
often something happens
always, usually, often,
sometimes,
seldom, never
Position of adverbs of
frequency
After the subject and be.
Before other main verbs
She is always hungry.
She always comes late.
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.
Adverbs of degree make the word
they modify stronger or weaker.
Extremely, too, very, so, really,
quite, enough, almost, hardly
Position of adverbs of
degree
Before the word they modify
Enough comes after the word it
modifies
They are also called intensifiers.
They modify verbs, adjectives,
other adverbs and quantifiers.
You work too hard.
I don’t eat very much.
You almost failed the exam.
You don’t sleep enough
She doesn’t try hard enough.
Hard
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Hardly
He works hard.
He is a hard worker.
He hardly works.
Enough (quantifier)
I have enough money to live
comfortably.
It comes before the noun
Enough (intensifier)
You aren’t eating enough.
It comes after the noun it modifies.
So
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Such
She is so nice.
She is such a nice girl.
The end!