Slide 1:Adverb Notes

Slide 2:Definition An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

Slide 3:Adverbs answer the following questions: Where? How often? or how long? When? To What extent? How? or how much?

Slide 4:Examples The sprinter ran swiftly. [The adverb swiftly modifies the verb ran and hells how.] I read the funny pages early on Sunday morning. [The adverb early modifies the adjective small and tells to what extent.]

Slide 5:Examples 3. Jolene was comforting a very small child. [The adverb very modifies the adjective small and tells to what extent.] 4. The fire blazed too wildly for anyone to enter. [The adverb too modifies the adverb wildly and tells to what extent. The adverb wildly modifies the verb modifies the verb blazed and tells how.]

Slide 6:Examples 5. Dad will sometimes quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s speech. [The adverb sometimes modifies the verb will quote and tells how often.] 6. Put the apples there, and we will eat them later. [The adverb there modifies the verb put and tells where. The adverb later modifies the verb will eat and tells when.]

Slide 7:Words Often Used as Adverbs

Slide 8:Where? Away Here Inside There Up

Slide 9:When? Later Now Soon Then Tomorrow

Slide 10:How? Clearly Easily Quietly Slowly

Slide 11:How often? or how long? Always Usually Continuously Never Forever Briefly

Slide 12:To what extent? or How much? Almost So Too More Least Extremely Quite Very Not

Slide 13:Take Note The word not is nearly always used as an adverb modifying a verb. When not is part of a contraction, as in hadn’t, aren’t, and didn’t, the –n’t is still an adverb and is not part of the verb.