Adverbs

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Adverbs

• Grade Seven

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What are Adverbs?

• Adverbs are single-word modifiers.
• This means that they describe something.
• They describe verbs most of the time.
• Sometimes they describe adjectives and other
  adverbs.

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What are Adverbs?

• Most adverbs describe an action verb.
• Run is a verb. You could
• run fast
• run slow
• run backward
• run sideways
• Fast, slow, backward, sideways these are all
  adverbs because they describe the action run.

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What are Adverbs?

• Some adverbs describe adjectives.
• Pretty is an adjective.
• You could say
• quite pretty
• really pretty
• not pretty
• definitely pretty
• Quite, really, not, definitely these are all
  adverbs because they describe the adjective
  pretty.

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What are Adverbs?

• Some adverbs also describe other adverbs.
• Cowardly is an adverb.
• You could say
• very cowardly
• never cowardly
• always cowardly
• thoroughly cowardly
• Very, never, always, thoroughly these are
  adverbs because they describe other adverbs.

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Types of Adverbs

• One type of adverb is the adverb of time.
• Adverbs of time tell when? or how often? an
  action occurs.
• Example
• I never saw the movie.
• (When did I see it? Never. That means never
  is an adverb of time.)
• Example
• We wrote a story yesterday in class.
• (When did we write it? Yesterday. That means
  yesterday is an adverb of time.)

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Types of Adverbs

• Another type of adverb are adverbs of place.
• Adverbs of place tell where? an action
  occurred.
• Example
• Did you put your book there on the table?
• Where did you put your book? There. That means
  that there is an adverb. On the table is a
  prepositional phrase. It is not an adverb.
  Remember that an adverb is a single-word
  modifier.

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Types of Adverbs

• The most common type of adverbs are adverbs of
  manner.
• Adverbs of manner tell how? or in what
  manner? an action has occurred.
• Many adverbs of manner end in the letters ly.
• Example
• We walked slowly down the hall.
• (How did we walk? Slowly. That means
  slowly is an adverb of manner.)

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Types of Adverbs

• Adverbs of degree are the hardest type of adverb
  to locate in a sentence.
• Adverbs of manner tell how much? or to what
  degree? something occurs.
• Adverbs of manner are often the ones that
  describe adjectives or other adverbs.
• Example
• I am very tired.
• (To what degree am I tired? Very. Very is an
• adverb of manner.)
• Example
• We were too sleepy to continue the activity.
• (How much were we sleepy? Too. That means that
  toois
• an adverb of degree.)

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Types of Adverbs

• The final type of adverb are adverbs of
  affirmation and negation.
• The three adverbs of affirmation are
• yes, indeed, undoubtedly
• The three adverbs of negation are
• no, not, never
• Anytime these words appear in sentences, they are
  adverbs.

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Adverb or Adjective?

• An ADVERB modifies verbs, adjectives and other
  adverbs.
• An ADJECTIVE modifies nouns.
• Example
• The fast car is racing.
• (Fast describes car. Car is a noun. The kind
  of word that describes a noun is an adjective
  therefore, in this sentence, fast is an
  adjective.)
• Example The car races fast.
• (Fast describes how it races. Races is a verb.
  The kind of word that describes a verb is an
  adverb therefore, in this sentence, fast is an
  adverb.)

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• This completes the review of adverbs.
• Additional review can be done in the review
  folders housed in 106 and the library.