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

2. What is an Adverb?
An adverb is a word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

3. Adverbs modify verbs:
Example:
Good drivers turn that corner slowly.

4. Adverbs modify adjectives:
Example:
Really good drivers turn that corner slowly.
“good” is an adjective modifying drivers
“really” is an adverb modifying “good”

5. Adverbs sometimes modify other adverbs:
Example:
Good drivers turn that corner very slowly.
“slowly” is an adverb describing the verb “turn”
“very” is an adverb describing the adverb “slowly”

6. Adverbs usually answer the following questions:
How?
Where?
When?
To what extent?

7. Examples of Adverbs that answer the question “How?”
Jason ran quickly.
How did Jason run? – 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: How does each adverb end?

8. Examples of Adverbs that answer the question “Where?”
The 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

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

10. Examples of adverbs that answer “to what extent?”
Our cat is extremely lazy.
To what extent is our cat lazy?
--extremely

11. Also,
Adverbs often end in “ly” (but not always)

12. Why use adverbs?
Adverbs make the action in a sentence more interesting.