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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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Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. compound subjects part two
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4. Using Capital Letters
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5. the prepositional phrase
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6. what good writers do
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7. the indirect object
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8. The possessive case
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9. the direct object
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10. the adverb
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11. the adjective clause
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12. The verb be
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13. the appositive
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14. Sound a like words Part Two
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15. The Colon
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16. the pronoun
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17. The Apostrophe
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18. complete and simple subjects
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19. Commas Part Four
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20. Second Capitalization List
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21. personal pronouns
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22. Confusing usage words part three
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23. Commas Part Three
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24. Quotation Marks Part Two
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25. complex sentences
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26. types of nouns
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27. the noun clause
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28. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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29. Confusing usage words part one
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30. Confusing usage words part four
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31. Confusing usage words part six
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32. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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33. the correlative conjunction
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34. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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35. More Apostrophe Situations
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36. introducing clauses
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37. the adverb clause
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38. Confusing usage words part three
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39. complete and simple predicates
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40. Confusing usage words part two
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41. Sound alike words part one
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42. Sound a like words Part Four
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43. Commas Part Five
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44. The nominative case
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45. Commas Part One
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46. Quotation Marks Part One
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47. the object of the preposition
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48. the verb
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49. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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50. Confusing usage words part eight
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