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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. compound subjects part two

3. Quotation Marks Part Three

4. Sound a like words Part Four

5. complete and simple subjects

6. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

7. Second Capitalization List

8. irregular verbs part two

9. the object of the preposition

10. Active and passive voices

11. complete and simple predicates

12. the noun

13. the noun clause

14. The possessive case

15. Confusing usage words part six

16. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

17. agreement involving prepositional phrases

18. the indirect object

19. the prepositional phrase

20. Confusing usage words part three

21. More Apostrophe Situations

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. the correlative conjunction

24. Confusing usage words part seven

25. the adverb

26. the adjective phrase

27. Confusing usage words part four

28. Sound alike words part one

29. regular verb tenses

30. compound subject and compound predicate

31. the direct object

32. Transitive and intransitive verbs

33. The verb be

34. the adjective

35. Confusing usage words part two

36. Sound a like words Part Two

37. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

38. Commas Part Three

39. The Semicolon

40. First Capitalization List

41. More subject verb agreement situations

42. types of sentences by purpose

43. compound complex sentences

44. subject and verb agreement

45. pronouns and their antecedents

46. the interjection

47. the verb

48. The possessive case and pronouns

49. the appositive

50. the gerund and gerund phrase