Negative Adverbials

Match the following adverbs and adverbial phrases to its descriptive term.

• He was speaking loudly in the office.

• manner

• He never actually does any work.

• frequency

• Ever since he won the tournament, he's had the "big head."

• time

• Clearly he doesn't really have the answer.

• place

• Only in Australia can you find both kangaroos and wombats.

• comment

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CCSS.L.3.1A

What does an inversion look like?

• I don't want to eat right now.

• Are you coming to the movies?

• Maria said she hasn't seen it.

• Tomas also wants to come with us.

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CCSS.L.3.1F

What negative adverbial does Kieran use? Type the sentence below.

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CCSS.L.3.1A

We use negative adverbials to ​ (a)   .

• emphasize
• sound formal
• show off
• increase intelligence

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Use a negative adverbial to emphasize something surprising:​ (a)   will I eat at that restaurant the food was horrible!

• Never again
• rarely
• Barely
• Hardly

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CCSS.L.3.1A

Use a negative adverbial to emphasize something unusual:​ (a)   do you meet someone as polite as he is. He was charming.

• Rarely
• No sooner
• Barely
• Hardly

All the sentence below have an adverbial that emphasizes one event following another except ...

• Barely had I sat down when there was a knock at the door.

• Hardly had the baby fallen asleep when the loud music started.

• No sooner had Max sat down than the door rang.

• Not in a million years did I think I'd be in Buenos Aires!

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CCSS.L.3.1A