Class 6 th Subject English. Adverbs modify three things: Verbs Adjectives Other Adverbs An adverb...

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Adverbs

Class 6th

Subject English

Adverbs modify three things:VerbsAdjectivesOther Adverbs

An adverb tells you many things:How?When?Where?Why?How Much (to what extent)?

What is an adverb?

Adverbs modify verbs, answering the questions

How?Worked quietly

Where?The soldiers marched forward

When?She visits often

Adverbs modify verbs

Adverbs modify adjectives, answering the questionTo what extent

The light was very bright

The barrel was almost full

ADVERB LIST

Adverbs modify adjectives

Adverbs modify adverbs, answering the questionTo what extent

He walked very slowly

The movie finished too abruptly

ADVERB LIST

Adverbs modify adverbs

Adjectives modify NOUNSUsed as a complement after a

linking verb

Adverbs modify VERBS, ADJECTIVES, and OTHER ADVERBS

Never can be used as a complement

ADVERB LIST

Adverbs VS. adjectives

Positive = No comparison

Comparative = Compares two people or things

Superlative = Compares more than two people or things

Degrees of adverbs

All adverbs that have an “ly” ending form their comparative and superlative forms by adding the adverbs more or most in front of it.

Modifying adverbs

Tell whether or not a fact is true

Negation Adverbs = Nowhere, Scarcely, Not, Never

Affirmation Adverbs = Yes, No

AFFIRMATION and NEGATION

Answers the questions

How? Where did you put my book?

Where? When did you visit grandma?

Why? Why did you fail that last exam?

When? How did you work that problem?

Interrogative adverbs