What are Adverbs?

a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb

What do adverbs do?Adverbs answer the following questions…

• Where? away, here, up

• When? later, now, soon, then

• How? quietly, slowly, clearly

The sprinter ran swiftly.

Elise was comforting a very small child.

The fire blazed too wildly.

Adjective or Adverb?

Adjective Adverb

• clear + ly = clearly

• quiet + ly = quietly

Identify the Adverbs…• Oklahoma is not the Cherokees’ original home.

(Find the verb first)adverb = “not”, modifies “is”

• A number of Cherokees still live in the mountains. (Find the verb first.)

adverb = “still”, modifies “live”

• The Cherokees readily supported the British.adverb = “readily”, modifies “supported”