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 |
Notes
Practical English Grammar - Notes
26. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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34. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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36. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes
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39. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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43. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
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44. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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48. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents
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49. compound subject and compound predicate
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