Transcript Adverbs PowerPoint

Adverbs
Key Learning:
Using appropriate grammar in writing and speaking is essential for
effective communication.
Unit Essential Question:
How does proper grammar help us to communicate
effectively?
Concept:
Adjectives
7.3.5(701.1.3)
Concept:
Adverbs
7.3.5(701.1.3)
Concept:
Possessive Nouns
7.3.5(701.1.1)
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What is the difference
between comparative and
superlative adjectives?
What is the difference
between comparative
and superlative
adverb?
How do we show
possession using a
singular noun and
plural noun?
What is the difference
between an adverb
clause and an adverb
phrase?
How do we show
possession using a
pronoun?
What is the difference
between an adjective
clause and an adjective
phrase?
Activator
• Watch Grammar Rock
– “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your
Adverbs Here”
– List the adverbs as they appear in
the video. How many can you
identify?
I. Adverbs
• An adverb is a word that
modifies a verb, an adjective,
or another adverb.
–Adverbs will NEVER,
never, never modify nouns
or pronouns (those are adj.)
Adverbs
–Adverbs modify verbs,
adjectives, and other adverbs
by asking where?, when?,
how?, how often?, how
long?, to what extent?, or
how much?
Adverbs
• Examples:
–The sprinter ran swiftly.
–I read the funny pages early
on Sunday morning.
–The fire blazed too wildly.
–Put the apples there, and
we will eat them later.
Common Adverbs
How often?
How long?
To what
extent?
How much?
always, usually,
continuously, never,
forever, briefly
almost, so, too,
more, least,
extremely, quite,
very, not
• FYI
–The word not is nearly
always used as an adverb.
Even when it is part of a
contraction (can’t, hadn’t,
aren’t, etc…) the –n’t is still
an adverb, not part of the
verb.
II. Adjective or Adverb
• Many adverbs end in –ly. They
generally become adverbs by
adding –ly to an adjective.
• Examples:
–clearly
–quietly
–convincingly
Adjective or Adverb
• Not all adverbs end in –ly
however. Adjectives can
as well…
- daily
- early
- friendly
- kindly
- lonely
- timely
III. Position of Adverbs
• Adverbs can appear in
various places within a
sentence.
–They can come before,
after, or between the words
they modify.
III. Position of Adverbs
• Examples:
–We often study together.
–We study together often.
–Often we study together.
–We have often studied
together.
Position of Adverbs
• An adverb that introduces a
question will always appear
at the beginning of the
sentence.
–When does your school
start?
–How did you spend your
vacation?
IV. Comparative Adverbs
• Comparative adverbs are used
to show what one thing does
better or worse than the other.
–You usually create
comparative adverbs by
adding an “-er” to the end of
the word, or by using “more”
IV. Comparative Adverbs
Examples:
1. Jill did her homework more
frequently than Tim.
2. Jill did her homework faster
than Bob.
3. Jill was better at math.
V. Superlative Adverbs
• A superlative adverb is used to define
the highest degree of a verb.
–Superlative adverbs are used only if
three or more things or people are
being compared.
–You usually create superlative
adverbs by adding an “–est” on the
end of the word, or using “most”.
V. Superlative Adverbs
Examples:
1. Tommy ran the fastest of the
three students in the race.
2. Out of all her classmates, Tonya
read the test the most carefully.
3. Jacob arrived the earliest.
VI. Adverb Clause
• An adverb clause is a
dependent clause (an
incomplete sentence) that
modifies a verb, adjective, or
another adverb.
–It usually modifies the verb.
VII. Adverb Clause
• An adverb clause will usually have
a subordinating conjunction that
introduces it (after, before, until,
while, because, since, as, so that, in
order that, if, unless, whether,
though, although, even though,
where).
VI. Adverb Clauses
Examples:
1. You clean the bathroom while I
clean the carpet.
2. Ann was confident that she would
play the best.
3. Bring in the toys before they get
destroyed.
VII. Adverb Phrases
• An adverb phrase is a prepositional
phrase or an infinitive phrase that
usually modifies a verb.
– An adverb phrase CANNOT stand alone
as a sentence.
– Remember that long list of prepositions?
If not, go back and review them. This
will make your life easier. 
– Remember the BIG hint to what an
infinitive is? Go back and look…
VII. Adverb Phrases
Examples:
1. The carpenter hit the nail with a
hammer.
2. We must finish our project before the
holidays.
3. I'm saving my money to buy a car.
4. The students all showed up to support
the team.
Let’s Practice!
Underline the adverb(s) in the sentence and circle the word(s)
it modifies
1. Oklahoma is not the Cherokee’s
original home.
2. The Cherokees once lived in Georgia,
North Carolina, Alabama, and Tenn.
3. A number of Cherokee still live in the
Great Smokey Mountains of NC.
4. Settlers often ignored the Cherokee’s
rights to the land.
Let’s Practice!
Underline the adverb(s) and underline the word(s) modified.
5. Feeling threatened by the settlers; the
Cherokees readily supported the
British during the Revolutionary War.
6. In 1829, people hurried excitedly to
northern Georgia for the first gold
rush in the United States.
7. Many white settlers of the region
were extremely eager to find gold.
Summarizer
• Watch BrainPop!
– Adverbs
– Take quiz
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• GUM Wkbook Pages:
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– Page 54 ALL
• Adverb Clause/Phrase Worksheet