1st Semester Grammar Review: 1.9

1st Semester Grammar Review: 1.9

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Multiple Select

Adverbs can modify which of the following? (Select all that apply)

• Nouns

• Verbs

• Adjectives

• Other Adverbs

Adverbs answer the questions how? when? where? and to what degree?

What do Adverbs do?

An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more specific.

Defined

Page 63: Adverbs

Location of Adverbs

When modifying a verb, an adverb may appear in various positions in a sentence.

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When modifying an adjective or another adverb, an adverb appears directly before the modified word.

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Multiple Choice

When modifying a verb, an adverb will appear where?

• At the beginning

• It could be anywhere in the sentence

• Directly before the verb

• Directly after the verb

Multiple Choice

When modifying an adjective or another adverb, an adverb appears where?

• Directly before the adjective or adverb.

• Anywhere in the sentence.

Examples! Remember: Adverbs answer the questions how? when? where? and to what degree?

The boy had run quickly home. (Quickly modifies the verb phrase had run.)

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Kate is very nervous about her performance. (Very modifies the adjective nervous.)

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Dr. Delacorte removed the bandages quite carefully. (Quite modifies the adverb carefully; carefully modifies the verb removed.)

Draw

Draw an arrow from each adverb to the word it modifies.

Adverbs can modify not only verbs, but the entire verb phrase as well. Look at numbers 2 and 3 on page 63.

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Adverbs that are Negative

The negatives no, not, and the contraction -n’t are adverbs.

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Other negative words, such as nowhere, hardly, and never, can function as adverbs of time, place, and degree.

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I couldn’t remember where I left my science book. The rain never begins until softball practice starts.

Multiple Choice

Sometimes, you can add the suffix -ly to the end of which part of speech to make it an adverb?

• Noun

• Adjective

• Verb

• Pronoun

Draw

Draw an arrow from each adverb to the word it modifies.

Draw

Draw a line under each adverb. Write on the line the type(s) of word it modifies.

#s 1-10

Draw a line under each adverb. Write in the blank the type of word it modifies: V (verb), adj. (adjective) or adv. (adverb)​

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#s 11-30

Draw an arrow from each adverb to the word(s) it modifies. ​

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Homework Pages 64-65

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