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Adverbs

Adverbs are words that modify or describe other words. They can modify verbs, as in, "He speaks softly." Or they can modify adjectives, as in, "This room is quite large." Or they can even modify other adverbs, as in, "He walked very slowly."

You can turn many adjectives into adverbs by adding -ly to the end, as in quietly, quickly, slowly, or gladly. But be careful! This isn't true 100% of the time. For example, this doesn't work for adjectives that already end in -y, such as happy. The adverbial form of happy is happily.

Adverbs can come at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence. You can say, "Quickly, she ran down the street," or, "She ran quickly down the street," or, "She ran down the street quickly." However, you should never put an adverb between a verb and its object. You can say, "I hungrily ate an apple," but not, "I ate hungrily an apple."

Adverbs Grammar Quiz

  1. The kids ran down the street.

  2. She walked down the hallway.

  3. Usain Bolt runs very, very .

  4. Spaghetti tastes delicious.

  5. Miles Davis played the trumpet .

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escovas

Portugal

This little intoduction for the real grammar of the adverbes is quiet intresting, because is very simple and correct at the same time….

whritten by filipe…

06:58 PM Jul 16 2011 |

almutairi1

Germany

hi

09:08 PM Jul 04 2011 |

anupamghosh86

India

hi

05:36 PM Jul 03 2011 |

nitesh sahni

India

It is really easy to learn basic english grammer…...... fom this.

06:37 AM Jun 25 2011 |

sam...kam

Pakistan

 these are the words that modify, or describe, other words

04:06 PM Jun 18 2011 |

sang b

sang b

Gambia

The lesoons are very important and very encouraging…

07:00 PM Jun 07 2011 |

BoBolita

BoBolita

Yemen

it was useful ..tnx Cool

12:33 AM Mar 18 2011 |

afzaal malik

Pakistan

thanks…..

very intresting leson…..... 

05:21 PM Mar 14 2011 |

comandos7777

United Arab Emirates

thanks

08:39 PM Mar 07 2011 |

Tasnim Noha

Algeria

It is a very intresting lesson , thank you

04:00 PM Feb 25 2011 |