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Practical English Grammar

the adverb

The adverb, the fifth part of speech, modifies (qualifies or limits) verbs,
adjectives, or other adverbs. An adverb can answer any of these four
questions—Where? When? How? To what extent?
➲ Adverbs modify verbs:
Henry swam brilliantly. (How did Henry swim?)
The train then came down the line. (When did the train come down
the line?)

The runner fell down. (Where did the runner fall?)

➲ Adverbs modify adjectives:
The day was almost perfect. (To what extent was the day perfect?)
Some older people were quite happy with the club’s proposal. (How
happy were they?)
➲ Adverbs modify adverbs:
Sonny, swallow your food very slowly. (How slowly should Sonny
swallow his food?)
The architect worked quite methodically. (How methodically did the
architect work?)
Though many adverbs end with -ly, these thirty-three adverbs below
do not.

again	almost	alone	already	also
always	away	even	ever	here
just	later	never	not	now
nowhere	often	perhaps	quite	rather
seldom	so	sometimes	somewhat	somewhere
soon	then	there	today	too
very	yesterday	yet

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Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. compound subjects part two

4. the noun

5. the adverb

6. Using Capital Letters

7. Sound a like words Part Four

8. the preposition

9. the indirect object

10. the pronoun

11. the infinitive and infinitive phrase

12. introducing phrases

13. the verb

14. Confusing usage words part six

15. The Apostrophe

16. the adjective phrase

17. the adjective clause

18. complete and simple subjects

19. Confusing usage words part three

20. The Semicolon

21. The Colon

22. the object of the preposition

23. the adverb phrase

24. introducing clauses

25. the noun clause

26. the subordinating conjunction

27. The possessive case

28. the direct object

29. the adjective

30. the appositive

31. what good writers do

32. Confusing usage words part two

33. The verb be

34. the participle and participial phrase

35. Commas Part Five

36. Second Capitalization List

37. types of sentences by purpose

38. the interjection

39. the adverb clause

40. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

41. Commas Part Four

42. More Apostrophe Situations

43. First Capitalization List

44. indefinite pronouns

45. regular verb tenses

46. the correlative conjunction

47. types of nouns

48. singular and plural nouns and pronouns

49. The nominative case

50. irregular verbs part two