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Adverbs: uses
Adverbs are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adjectives. We use
adverbs to add more information about a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a clause or a whole
sentence and, less commonly, about a noun phrase.

Can you move it carefully? It’s fragile.

Quickly! We’re late.
She swims really well.
Don’t go so fast.
You have to turn it clockwise.
Come over here.
Actually, I don’t know her.

I haven’t seen them recently.

The bathroom’s upstairs on the left.

Adverbs: meanings and functions

Adverbs have many different meanings and functions. They are especially important for indicating the
time, manner, place, degree and frequency of something.

time I never get up early at the weekends.

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place When we got there, the tickets had sold out.

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degree It’s rather cold, isn’t it?

frequency I’m always losing my keys.

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