ADVERBS

Ms. López

WHAT ARE ADVERBS?

Adverbs are modifiers and can modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.

Adverbs tell us in what way someone does something.

ADJECTIVE VS. ADVERBS

Mandy is a careful driver. Mandy drives carefully.

This sentence is about Mandy, the driver, so it

uses the adjective CAREFUL to describe her.

This sentence is about her way of driving, so uses the adverb Carefully to modify the verb drives.

• Mandy is a driver. Mandy drives.

noun

verb

Adverbs: how to form them?Adverbs are formed adding -ly to adjectives.

Tip: Not all words ending in -ly are adverbs.

adjectives ending in -ly: friendly, silly, lonely, ugly

nouns, ending in -ly: ally, bully, Italy, melancholy

verbs, ending in -ly: apply, rely, supply

There is no adverb for an adjective ending in -ly.

Adverbs: how to form them?

The following adverbs are not derived from adjectives:

The following adjectives and adverbs have the same form:

Adverbs: how to form them?

The following adverbs have two form:

LET´S PRACTICE: FORM THE ADVERBS FROM THE FOLLOWING ADJECTIVES:

1. Perfect

2. Quiet

3. Careful

4. Regular

5. Nice

6. Terrible

7. Heavy

8. Good

9. Hard

10. Fantastic

1. Perfectly

2. Quietly

3. Carefully

4. Regularly

5. Nicely

6. Terribly

7. Heavily

8. Well

9. Hard

10. Fantastically

TYPES OF ADVERBS1) Adverbs of manner

quicklykindly

2) Adverbs of degree

veryrather

3) Adverbs of frequency

oftensometimes

4) Adverbs of time

nowtoday

5) Adverbs of place

herenowhere

THE POSITION OF ADVERBS IN SENTENCES

The three main positions are:

1) Adverb at the beginning of a sentence

Unfortunately, we could not see Mount Snowdon.

2) Adverb in the middle of a sentence

The children often ride their bikes.

3) Adverb at the end of a sentence

Andy reads a comic every afternoon.

we never put an adverb between the verb and the

object.

The Object is found asking What after

the verb:

Could not see What?Rides What?Reads What?

THE POSITION OF ADVERBS IN SENTENCES

Adverbs of frequency are positioned before the main verb (usually, regularly, normally

, always, often, sometimes, occasionally, rarely, seldom, never ) :

Or after a form of the Verb to be (am, is, are)

These adverbs can go at the benining or the end of a

sentence.

ADVERBS: WORD ORDER AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE

If there are more adverbs at the end of a sentence, the word order is normally:

Manner - Place – Time

Peter sang the song happily in the bathroom yesterday evening.

How Peter sang ?

Where Peter sang ?

When Peter sang?

Adverbs tell us in what

way someone

does something.

REWRITE THE COMPLETE SENTENCE USING THE ADVERB IN BRACKETS IN ITS USUAL POSITION.

1) Our friends must write a test. (also)2) I was joking. (only)3) Did you enjoy the flight? (both)4) Mary watches TV. (hardly) (ever)5) He drives his car. (carefully)6) The children play football. (in the garden)7) We went to the cinema. (yesterday)8) John fell off the bike. (almost)9) Her boyfriend will buy her some flowers.

(probably)10) My uncle is moving to Stockholm soon.

(definitely)

1) Our friends must also write a test.2) I was only joking.3) Did you both enjoy the flight? 4) Mary hardly ever watches TV. 5) He drives his car carefully. 6) The children play football in the garden. 7) We went to the cinema yesterday. 8) John almost fell off the bike. 9) Her boyfriend will probably buy her some

flowers. 10) My uncle is definitely moving to Stockholm

soon.