ADVERBS

1. TYPES OF ADVERBS
2. FORM OF ADVERBS
3. ADVERBS AS MODIFIERS
I. Types of adverbs
• 1. MODIFIERS: very, quite, awfully
• 2. TIME: soon, tomorrow, often
• 3. PLACE: at school, somewhere,
away
• 4. MANNER: blindly, happily, fast
• 5. FOCUS: only, just, even
Practice
Use the above adverbs in your own
sentences.
1. I am awfully sorry.
2. They bought the car blindly.
3. …and they lived happily ever after.
4. He ran away from the lion.
 II. How do we form the adverbs
adjective+ -ly
kind > kindly
quiet > quietly
successful > successfully
pretty > prettily
happy >happily
good> well
real > really
 How do we form the adverbs
adjective+ -ly
• fair > fairly
• near > nearly
• fast > fastly
• A fast car > He walks fastly.
ADJECTIVE ADVERB
Practice
Use the above adverbs in your own
sentences.
• prettily - in a pretty manner:
This dress is most prettily done.
• The doctors have successfully
concluded preliminary tests.
 III. Adverbs as modifiers
• 1. He was extremely annoyed.
+, intensifiers

• 2. She wasn’t very happy about

the party.
- , diminishers
Other modifying adverbs
• horribly
• wonderfully
• unfortunatelly