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Adverbs modify
verbs
adjectives
other adverbs
quantifiers
and
whole sentences
They answer the questions
How?
When?
Where?
How often?
How sure?
Adverbs that modify verbs can go
in several different places in a
sentence.
At the beginning
At the end
After the helping verb
Adverbs that modify adjectives and
other adverbs go directly before the
words they modify.
Quick – quickly
careful – carefully
nice – nicely
easy - easily
Children learn new languages
easily.
Fast, slowly
well, badly
carefully
patiently
right
Position of adverbs of
manner:
After the main verb when there is
no object.
After the verb + object
I speak slowly.
We took it back.
Adverbs of time tell when
something happens.
He works hard.
He is a hard worker.
He hardly works.
Enough (quantifier)
I have enough money to live
comfortably.
It comes before the noun
Enough (intensifier)
You aren’t eating enough.
It comes after the noun it modifies.
So
and
Such
She is so nice.
She is such a nice girl.
The end!