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USE OF ENGLISH
Teacher: Ma. Cristina Chávez
Subject: English Classroom:5th. _____
Student: _____________________________________ Date: _____/____/ 202__
Capacity: WRITING
Performance: Organize and develop ideas in English in a coherent and cohesion way.

Adverbs
Adverbs are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs
and adjectives. We use adverbs to add more information about a verb, an
adjective, another adverb, a clause or a whole sentence and, less commonly,
about a noun phrase
Adverbs ENDING IN -LY
Adverbs have a strong connection with adjectives. Adjectives and adverbs are usually
based on the same word. Adverbs often have the form of an adjective + -ly.
Compare
ADJECTIVE ADVERB

He was calm when I told him. He behaved calmly.

Your work is beautifully presented,

That was a beautiful presentation, Carla.
Carla.

Adverbs ending in -ly are usually adverbs of manner (slowly) and degree (completely,
fairly).
Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -l have double l:
beautiful → beautifully, careful → carefully, hopeful → hopefully, historical → historically
• Magda looked hopefully at her mother.
• Historically, there was never any conflict between the two communities.
• Adverbs formed from adjectives ending in -y change the y to i:
• easy → easily, busy → busily, lucky → luckily, angry → angrily
• Luckily, I had a backup copy of the data on a disk.
• I’ve never seen him react so angrily.
• Adverbs ending in a consonant +e keep the e:
• definite → definitely, fortunate → fortunately, extreme → extremely, absolute →
absolutely
• I am extremely grateful to you.
• We were absolutely exhausted at the end of it all.

➢ Adverbs ending in -WARD(S) or -WISE

There is a small group of adverbs which end in -ward(s) or -wise. The -ward(s) words can
end in either -ward or -wards (inward, inwards).
1. -wards: inwards, eastwards, upwards, downwards
2. -wise: clockwise, lengthwise, likewise
• The doctor asked her to move her head upwards but she couldn’t.
• Turn the handle clockwise to start it.
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• He’s the one that they all love. Whatever he does, they do likewise. (They do the
same thing.)

Adverbs with the same FORM AS ADJECTIVES

Some adverbs have the same form as adjectives. The most common
are: fast (not fastly), left, hard, outside, right, straight, late, well, and time words such
as daily, weekly, monthly, yearly.
Compare
ADJECTIVE ADVERB

This coconut is really hard. You’ll need a You have to bang the door hard to shut
hammer to break it up. it.

She drives a fast car. They can swim quite fast now actually.

An outside light would be a really good idea When I went outside, the light came
for our house. on automatically.

I get a monthly pay cheque. My company pays me monthly.

WARNING:
Don’t confuse adjectives and adverbs. Adjectives modify nouns or are used after verbs
such as be, become, seem, look, smell, taste.
• She walks very elegantly. (adverb of manner, describing how she walks)
• He wore an elegant suit and a silk tie. (adjective describing the suit)
• She looks very elegant in that long skirt. (adjective after look)
Adjectives ENDING IN -LY
Some adjectives end in -ly, e.g. lively, lonely, ugly. We don’t form adverbs from these
adjectives because they are not easy to pronounce. We usually reword what we want to
say instead.
• Don’t act in a silly way.
Not: Don’t act sillily.
• She said it in a friendly way.
Not: She said it friendlily.

GRADABLE adverbs

Most adverbs, like most adjectives, are gradable (they can express different degrees of
qualities, properties, states, conditions and relations). We can modify adverbs using other
types of adverbs and comparative forms to make longer adverb phrases.
Compare
He plays the piano amazingly.
really is a degree adverb
He plays the piano really amazingly.

She played golf skilfully this time. more is a degree adverb

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She played golf more skilfully this time. more skilfully is a comparative form

ADVERBS TYPES

➢ TIME adverbs
Time adverbs tell us about when something happens.

already lately still tomorrow

early now soon yesterday

finally recently today yet

• Have you seen Laurie today?

• I’d prefer to leave early.
• I went to the cinema on my own recently.
• There’s been an increase in house burglary lately.
➢ Adverb phrases: Already, still or yet.

➢ PLACE adverbs
Place adverbs tell us about where something happens or where something is.
• There was somebody standing nearby.
• Is that your scarf there?
• You go upstairs and do your homework. I’ll come up in a minute.

➢ Manner adverbs

Manner adverbs tell us about the way something happens or is done.

accurately beautifully expertly professionally

anxiously carefully greedily quickly

badly cautiously loudly quietly

Manner adverbs are often formed from adjectives by adding -ly:

• She spoke very loudly. We could all hear what she was saying.
• We waited anxiously by the phone.
• We walked up the stairs very quietly because Mum and Dad were asleep.
Some common manner adverbs have the same form as adjectives and they have
similar meanings (e.g. fast, right, wrong, straight, tight).
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ADJECTIVE ADVERB

I was never a fast swimmer Driving fast is dangerous

All of your answers People always spell my

were wrong. name wrong.

That builder never does

Is that the right time?
anything right!

My hair is straight. Let’s go straight to the airport.

➢ Degree adverbs (slightly) and focusing adverbs (generally)

Degree and focusing adverbs are the most common types of modifiers of adjectives and
other adverbs. Degree adverbs express degrees of qualities, properties, states, conditions
and relations. Focusing adverbs point to something.

absolutely enough perfectly somewhat

a (little) bit entirely pretty terribly

a lot extremely quite too

almost fairly rather totally

awfully highly remarkably utterly

completely lots slightly very

• Mary will be staying a bit longer. (a bit longer = for a little more time)
• It all happened pretty quickly.
• She was quite surprised they came, actually.
• It was £3.52 if you want to be totally accurate.

➢ Focusing adverbs

especially just mainly particularly

generally largely only simply

• I just wanted to ask you what you thought.

• I wouldn’t particularly like to move to a modern house.
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➢ Evaluative adverbs (surprisingly) and viewpoint adverbs (personally)

We put some adverbs outside the clause. They modify the whole sentence or
utterance. Evaluative and viewpoint adverbs are good examples of this:
• The electric car, surprisingly, does not really offer any advantages over
petrol cars. (evaluative)
• Personally, I think the show was great. (viewpoint)

➢ Linking adverbs (then, however)

Linking adverbs show a relationship between two clauses or sentences (e.g. a
sequence in time, cause and effect, contrast between two things):
• I left my house in the morning [sequence]then I went to pick up Leanne at her
house.
• [cause]We talked until the early hours and [effect] consequently I overslept
the next morning. (the result of the late night is that I was late the next
morning)
• The sun will be shining in France. [contrast] However, heavy rain is expected
in Spain.

➢ Warning:
We can use then and consequently to join clauses or sentences.
We usually use but not however to connect two clauses in the same sentence:
• There was no room for them but they got on the train.
• There was no room for them. However, they got on the train.

Source:https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adverbs-types
Adapted by: mcchc
Grade 5th.
Year: 20__