ADVERBS

Adverbs
To what extent?
How much? (greatly)
(extremely)

How? Where?
(here)
When?
(yesterday)

How often?
(usually)
Formation of adverbs

• Simple + ly = simply
• Polite + ly = politely
• Happy + ly = happily
• Original + ly = originally
• Tragic + ly = tragically
Adverbs with two forms and differences in meaning
 Hardl
y =
almost not
I could hardly see in the dark.
There was hardly any food left.
Negative prefixes
illiterate

apolitical irregularly

dislike unhappily
insanely
impossibly
 Order of adverbs
Manner Place Time
(how) (where) (when)

They met by chance in England in 1999.

Verb of movement

Place Manner Time

(where) (how) (when)

He goes to school by car every day.