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.