ADVERBS NOUN ADJECTIVE VERB ADVERB Nouns are a person, place or thing. An adjective gives more information about nouns. Verbs say what a noun is/does. An adverb gives more information about verbs. There are four (4) kinds of adverbs: Manner Frequency Place Time NOUN ADJECTIVE VERB ADVERB
ADVERBS ADJECTIVE ADVERB Normally you can change adjectives into adverbs by adding “ly”. (ex. He is quiet. He is working quietly.) ADJECTIVE ADVERB Excited High Slow Quick Gentle Careful Nice Excitedly Highly Slowly Quickly Gently Carefully Nicely
ADVERBS ADVERBS Adverbs give us more information about a verb. They (almost) always come after the verb they are describing. They can talk about how, where or when you do something. ADVERBS We are working together on our homework. You need to sit quietly. He is playing outside. Put your hand up! I will do my homework later. The test will start soon.
ADVERBS There are four (4) kinds of adverbs that you need to know. These are used to give us more information about verbs. Adverbs of Manner These answer how you do something. Adverbs of Frequency These answer how often you do something. Adverbs of Place These answer where you do something. Adverbs of Time These answer when you do something.
There are four (4) kinds of adverbs that you need to know. Here are some examples MANNER quietly, terribly, carefully, noisily, loudly, quickly FREQUENCY always, usually, often, sometimes, rarely, never PLACE out, inside, over here, up there, everywhere TIME tomorrow, last night, later, all day, now
ADVERBS You also need to be able to convert a noun and adjective into a verb and adverb. “The boy is a runner” has the same meaning as “The boy runs”. That’s because the verb is the main action of the noun. A teacher teaches. A worker works. A runner runs. We can also give more information about the noun using adjectives. The teacher is quiet. He is a quiet teacher. The worker is smart. She is a smart worker. The runner is quick. He is a quick runner. By changing the adjectives into adverbs we get this: A quiet teacher teaches quietly. A smart worker works smartly. A quick runner runs quickly.
ADVERBS So if we make the stand alone sentences, can you make these adjective-noun sentences into verb-adverb sentences? I am a beautiful singer. She is a patient helper. We are correct writers. He is a close listener.
ADVERBS So if we make the stand alone sentences, can you make these adjective-noun sentences into verb-adverb sentences? I am a beautiful singer. I sing beautifully. She is a patient helper. She helps patiently. We are correct writers. We write correctly. He is a close listener. He listens closely.
ADVERBS There are, of course, some exceptions to the rules you need to know for adverbs. And they’re really exceptional: Late: Late is both the adjective and adverb form. (He is late. He came late.) Lately: Lately means “recently” or “short time ago”. (What have you done lately?) Hard: Hard is both the adjective and adverb form. (He works hard on his homework.) Hardly: Hardly means “barely”, “almost”, “not at all”. (I can hardly speak Chinese.)
ADVERBS ADJECTIVE ADVERB You also need to be able to make comparatives and superlatives with adverbs, since they can be adjective, too. The rules are slightly different: If it’s one syllable (or the word early) “+er” or “the +est”. (fast, faster, fastest) (2) More than two syllables “more/less” or “the most/the least”. (slowly, more slowly, the most slowly) (carefully, less carefully, the least carefully) ADJECTIVE ADVERB nice, nicer, the nicest quiet, quieter, the quietest tired, more tired, the most tired nicely, more nicely, the most nicely quietly, more quietly, the most quietly tiredly, more tiredly, the most tiredly
ADVERBS ADJECTIVE ADVERB COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE Here are more exceptions. These ones are for comparative adverbs. ADJECTIVE ADVERB COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE good bad much little far well badly much little farther/further better than worse than more than less than farther than further than the best the worst the most the least the farthest the furthest