They provide answers to important questions. Adverbs They provide answers to important questions.

What is an Adverb? An adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb Adverbs usually answer the following questions: How? When? Where? To what extent?

Examples of Adverbs that answer the question “How?” Jason charged quickly. How did Jason charge? – quickly The two cars crashed loudly. How did the two cars crash?– loudly Mikayla opened her present eagerly. How did she open her present? – eagerly Note: What suffix do these adverbs end in?

Examples of Adverbs that answer the question “Where?” The Canada geese flew overhead. Where did the geese fly? – overhead The boy was playing downstairs. Where was he playing? -- downstairs It was raining outside. Where was it raining? --outside

Examples of Adverbs that answer the question “When?” The instructor arrived late. When did the instructor arrive? -- late Mr. Brown assigns homework occasionally. When does Mr. Brown assign homework? -- occasionally Yesterday we watched a movie. When did we watch a movie? --yesterday

Your turn First, underline the verb in each sentence Then, circle the adverb that describes the verb Next, tell what question the adverb is answering: how? when? where? to what extent?

Examples: Jonathan drove cautiously during the snowstorm. how? Cassandra is watching TV upstairs. where? The cashier always arrives early for her shift at Tim Hortons. when?

And now for the tricky question: -- to what extent? Dakota was very sick. To what extend was Dakota sick? -- very Notice: “sick” is an adjective describing Dakota Therefore, “very” is an adverb describing the adjective “sick”

Once again, “to what extent?” Our cat is extremely lazy. To what extent is our cat lazy? --extremely Again, “lazy” is an adjective describing cat Therefore, “extremely” is an adverb describing the adjective “lazy”

One more example… The math test was quite difficult. To what extent was the test difficult? -- quite “Difficult” is an adjective describing test “quite” is an adverb describing the adjective “difficult”

Your turn… First, underline the verb in each sentence Then, circle the adverb that describes the verb Next, tell what question the adverb is answering: how? when? where? to what extent?

Some examples: After Caitlin was checked into the boards, she moved rather slowly. how? -- slowly, to what extent? – rather