is about adverbs. Take a look at these sentences

She sings beautifully. He felt poorly after he fell from the stairs.

The words that are underlined are

adverbs. In this lesson

I'm going to show you what adverbs exactly are, the different types of

adverbs,

how to form an adverbs, how to place an adverbs in a sentence

and the exceptions.

I'm going to take you through the most common exceptions,

not all. Now what are adverbs?

Adverbs add extra information to a verb.

For example: He arrived home safely. Safely here says something about

arriving we could also say he arrived home

early and here early would be an adverb.

It also comments on an adjective.

Remember an adjective says someting about a noun.

She wore a brightly coloured dress.

Dress in this sentence is a noun.

Coloured here is an adjective because it says something about the dress

but brightly says something about the way it was coloured.

We could also say she that she wore a pink coloured dress

and then pink would be an adverb. It also says something about

other at adverbs. For example: She did her job fairly well.

Well says something about the manner

in which she did her job and fairly says something about

well, we could also say she did her job reasonably

well. An adverbs also says something about a

sentences or a clause. Honestly I feel very ill.

Here the adverbs comments on the entire sentence

there are many different types of adverbs,

First there are adverbs of manner,

these adverbs say someting about how it happens.

He looked at me carefully. We could also say he looked at me slowly

it says something about the way he looked at me.

The museum will slowly go bankrupt

no quickly, slowly. He plays football well

There are also

adverbs of place, where does it happen.

My keys must be somewhere. Here somewhere

is an adverb. There they are or

here they are. These are adverbs.

We had to travel quite far.

There are also adverbs of time when doesn't happen.

Finaly, which means in the end,

he managed to grow a beard. He eventually

came home. He rang her immediately

after he had heard the news.

There are also adverbs of frequency, how often does it happen.

I always brush my teeth before going to bed.

She's often late for work.

My aunt never rings me on my birthday.

Other types of adverbs of frequency are,

sometimes or regularly.

Now we also have

adverbs of degree in what way does it happen.

He arrived home fairly late. This cake can be made

quite easily and they are definitely

right.

Finally sentence adverbs, they comment on an entire sentence or a

clause. Frankly I'm fed up with you.

The child clearly wanted some ice cream.

He loved her very much obviously. Usually but not always as you can see in

the second sentence,

these adverbs can be found at the beginning

or at the end of a sentence. Now how do we form an adverb?

Please note that there is a clear

difference in form between an adverb and an adjective.

Remember an adjective says something about a noun.

To form an adverb, we usually take

an adjective and we add -ly

to this adjective. We quickly packed our

bags and left.

They don't normally sell these shoes. So quick and normal are

adjectives and now we've added -ly to them

and now they've become adverbs. We need to pay attention to

adverbs in a -y. For example easy and

happy here the -y becomes an 'i' for

example they passed the exams easily

and we are happily married. Now please note:

that there is dry/dryly and shy/ shyly.

this is basically because these

adjectives only have one

syllable. We also need to pay attention to

adjectives ending 'ic',

for example specific or terrific.

Here we add 'ally.'

For example: They specifically asked for a room with a view

He won the match terrifically.

Please note that it is: public and publicly.

So it's an exception.

Now where do we place adverbs?

We also need to pay attantion to adverbs of frequency so

always, never, sometimes, regularly etc.

these adverbs of frequency become before the main verb

or after a form of 'to be.' For example

He often works late.

She is never in time for dinner. 'Is' is a form of

'to be' so we place the adverb after 'is.'

Now pay attention to the following sentence: They can always call me

in times of need. Here we have two verbs we have

'can' and 'call' but since call here is

the main verb, the main action

we put the adverb in front of the main verb.

For all other adverbs, they can be placed anywhere in a sentence.

But adverbs of place become before adverbs of time.

We basically say: place before time.

For example I searched for my diary

everywhere yesterday. Everywhere

is an adverbs and yesterday is an adverb.

But since everywhere denotes place,

and yesterday denotes time, we place yesterday

at the end of the sentence. Obviously you could also say:

Yesterday, I searched for my diary everywhere.

A time can eithet be at the beginning of a sentence or

at the end of a sentence.

Now let's take a look at some of the exceptions some adjectives don't

change when used as an adverb.

Yearly, daily, weekly etc.

early but then again it already looks like an adverb.

liitle

long, fast, next.

These are some of the adjectives that don't change, there are more,

I have selected the most common ones.

You also need to pay attention to the words good and well.

They have the same meaning, but

good is an adjective as you can see in he is a

swimmer. Good says something about a noun: swimmer.

He swims well and here we use the adverb,

because it says something about the way he swims

the verb. Some adjectives change in meaning when we add '-ly.'

So fair means

honest but fairly means reasonably.

hard as in tough but hardly

almost none. Late as in

not early but lately as in recently,

Near as in close and nearly as in

almost. So we cannot change

these simply into an adverb.

You need to pay good attention when adding something

to an adjective.

Certain verbs that we call copulas require an adjective

not an adverb. These verbs

these are the most common ones, so not all: to appear,

to be, to become, to feel,

get, to keep, to seem to smell,

to sound, to taste. Please note that I have put an '*'

after, to get, to smell, to taste

because these can also be

common verbs. So they're not always copulas.

So pay attention to these sentences

This food tastes great.

and here great is an adjective,

because it says something about the taste

but if we say he tasted the food carefully

here it says something about the verb itself

in the way he tasted it.

So when he says the food tastes great,

great says something about the food but when we say

he tasted the food carefully, we say something about the way

he tasted it, the verb.

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