Adverbs

WHAT ARE THEM?

 Adverbs are words or phrases that describe or modify a verb, an adjective or
another adverbs
 Adverbs can describe:
1. Manner (How): Quietly – Peacefully – Slowly
2. Place (where): There – Here – Far
3. Time (when): Now – Yesterday – Last year
4. Frequency (how often): Always – Normally – Sometimes
5. Degree (how much): Very – Quite - Just
How to form Adverbs
• We usually add –ly to the adjective
Quiet ➡️Quietly
• Adjectives ending in –le drop –le and take –ly
Gentle ➡️Gently
• Adjectives ending in consonant + y drop the –y and take –ily
Happy ➡️Happily
• Adjectives ending in –l take –ly
Awful ➡️Awfully
• Adjectives ending in –ic usually take –ally
Basic ➡️Basically but Public ➡️Publicly
• Adjectives ending in –e take –ily
Polite ➡️Politely but True ➡️Truly
Order of adverbs
• Adverbs usually go after verbs but before adjectives, other adverbs and participles
• Adverbs of manner go before the main verb, after the aux verb and at the end of the sentence
• Adverbs of degree go before an adj., adverb or main verb, but after the auxiliary verb
• Adverbs of frequency go after the auxiliary verb an verb to be, but before the main verb
• Adverbs of time and place usually go at the end of the sentence
• We csan put an adverb at the beginning of the sentence to emphasise it
• When there are more adverbs in the same sentence they come in the following order: manner
– time – place
• If there is a verb of movement such as go, come, leave the order is: place – manner - time
Degree adverbs
QUITE – RATHER – FAIRLY
Quite

• With gradeable adjectives it has a negative meaning: not very much or less than
expected
• With ungradeable adjectives means completely
• Can be used with a/an + noun to show that something is unusual or interesting
Rather

• With gradeable adjectives it has a stronger meaning than quite

• Is commonly used with negative adjectives
•
Fairly

• With gradeables, it usually has a similar meaning to “quite” but is less strong