5th Meeting Quiz - Adverb

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What is an adverb?

• A) An adverb gives more information about the verb.
• B) An adverb gives more information about the noun.
• C) An adverb gives more information about the punctuation in a sentence.
• D) An adverb gives more information about the pronoun.

Which word in the following sentence is an adverb? Sara plays the violin beautifully.

• A) plays
• B) violin
• C) beautifully
• D) Sara

Which adverb would you use to complete the sentence: The rain fell _____________ against the window pane.

• A) awkwardly
• B) wickedly
• C) smugly
• D) heavily

Which of these adverbs can be used to complete this sentence? The sun shone ________.

• A) loudly
• B) brightly
• C) awkwardly
• D) luckily

Which of these sentences does not contain an adverb?

• A) The child ran happily towards his mother.
• B) Sali walked to the shops.
• C) Brendan gently woke the sleeping baby.
• D) I visited my mum yesterday.

Which of these words in the following sentence is an adverb? Kylie looked longingly into Jason's lovely blue eyes.

• A) looked
• B) longingly
• C) lovely
• D) eyes

Which of these sentences contains an adverb?

• A) Tim greedily ate the chocolate cake.
• B) The dog bit Colin.
• C) The car broke down.
• D) EastEnders is a soap opera.

Which of these statements about adverbs is false?

• A) We use an adverb to say how something happens.
• B) We use an adverb to say how often something happens.
• C) We use an adverb to say when or where something happens.
• D) We use an adverb in place of a noun.