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Adverbs

Adverbs. How? When? Where? To what extent?. The modify verbs by answering the questions:. How?. How does she eat?. She eats quickly. When?. When did she eat?. She ate yesterday. ( yesterday, today, last night, etc .). Where?. Where did she eat? . She ate here.

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Adverbs

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  1. Adverbs How? When? Where? To what extent?

  2. The modify verbs by answering the questions: • How? How does she eat? She eats quickly. • When? Whendid she eat? She ate yesterday. (yesterday, today, last night, etc.) • Where? Where did she eat? She ate here. [here, there, etc.]

  3. The modify verbs by answering the questions cont… • Where? Where did she eat? She ate here. here, there, etc.] • To what extent? How much did she eat? She ate plenty.[little, a lot, too much]

  4. This list of adverbs answer HOW? • acutely, adversely, apprehensively, beautifully, belligerently, blissfully, clumsily, competently, completely, constantly, covertly, decisively, derisively, disputably, dubiously, eloquently, elegantly, exquisitely, exuberantly , extravagantly, indisputably, enigmatically, expertly, extravagantly, hardly, horribly, inadvertently, incompetently, indecisively, indiscriminately, inquisitively, intensely, intensively, intentionally, matter-of-factly, meagerly, meekly, moderately, morosely, neatly, negatively, nostalgically, overtly, plainly, pleasingly, vigorously, positively, secretly, sideways, slovenly, sociably, stylishly, suspiciously, suavely, strangely, similarly, sweetly, systematically, quickly, slowly, fast, evenly, profoundly, romantically, electronically¸ mechanically, unintentionally, willfully

  5. They can answer the question When? • meets daily… calls hourly… visits weekly… blooms perennially… • hourly, momentarily, daily, weekly, bi-weekly, initially, primarily, lastly, monthly, bi-monthly, semi-monthly, yearly, perennially, annually, biennially, semi-annually

  6. These answer WHERE? • flies here… travels anywhere… going nowhere… moving everywhere… • here, there, anywhere, somewhere, everywhere, nowhere, above, below

  7. These usually modify by describing to what extent. He is veryfast. He is exceptionally slow. He is quite slow. adequately, endlessly, exactly, extremely, tremendously, inadequately, frequently, often, enormously, extensively, exclusively, profusely, regularly, widely

  8. These modify ADJECTIVES • actually intelligent… clearly superior… profoundly retarded… visibly weak… • actually, apparently, clearly, covertly, dubiously, explicitly, extremely, horribly, obstinately, obviously, openly, overly, overtly, potentially, profoundly, relatively, visibly

  9. And these modify other ADVERBSAlso known as INTENSIFIERS • very quickly... relatively fast... exceedingly fast… • very, inordinately, exceedingly, obviously, profoundly, relatively

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