Adverbs (Ferro Jhoanna & Mosquera Laura)

BY: JHOANNA FERRO & LAURA MOSQUERA. 

What is an Adverb?

Is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb, expressing manner, place, time or degree; a word that can modify a phrase, clause or sentence.

Kinds of Adverbs 

Adverb Form 

Adjective Ending	Do this	Adjective	Adverb
Most adjectives	Add – ly	Quick nice	Quickly- nicely
-able or – ible	Change – e to – y	Regrettable horrible	Regrettably horribly
-y	Change –y to - ily	Happy	Happily
-ic	Change –ic to –ically	Economic	economically

Here's how we compare adverbs 

Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Early	-er earlier	-est earliest
Daringly	More daringly	Most daringly
Swiftly	Less swiftly	Least swiftly

In this link you can find a list of common adverbs.

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adverbs.html

Also you can watch a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PgFbTK2jUI

Use of Adverbs 

• To modify verbs:

The handball team played badly last Sunday.

• To modify adjectives:

It was an extremely bad match.

• To modify adverbs:

The handball team played extremely badly last sunday.

• To modify quantities:        

There are quite a lot of people here.

• To modify sentences:

Unfortunately, the flight to Norway had been cancelled. 

Practice Part  

Comparing Adverbs 

Write the missing adverbs fot the blanks below:

Follow the sequence: Positive - Comparative- Superlative.

1. Carefully - ______________ - most carefully

2. Evenly - More evenly - _________________

3. Gently - ______________- most gently

Pick out the adverb and wirte the comparative and superlative forms.

4. To build muscles you must exercise regularly.

5. Although he eats slowly, he manages to clean his plate.

6. If everybody enters the room quietly, the lesson can begin.

7. Our neeighbor said the trees were close to his flowes and loudly objected.

8. We gave him some early blooming tomatoes as a friendly gesture.

Write the answers to the questions below using adverbs that show the time, or the place, or the way something is done.

 9. How do you prefer your hambuger grilled?

10. When the telephone rings, how do you answer?

11. At the end of the game, how does the winning side cheer?

12. How do you make your bed before leaving for school? 

Choose correctly / Adjectives or Adverbs? 
Choose the correct word in each sentence below.

Write the correct expression to fit each sentence below.

19. The traffic moved very (slow, slowly) during the storm.

20. Kathy can paint landscapes (beautiful, beautifully) in oils.

21. With a few lessons, she could be pretty (well, good) at it.

22. The piece of material felt somewhat (rough, roughly) to touch.

Choose the correct meaning for each adverb below. 

23. The lawyer raised his voice dramatically before the jury.
 A) Loudly      B) Foolishly  C) Theatrically 

24. The courtroom listened respectfully to the verdict.
 A) Excitedly  B) Quietly    C) Angrily 

25. The judge spoke mildly to the witness.
 A) Fiercely   B)  Gently     C) Personally. 

Spot the one word that does not mean the same as the rest of the words on the line.

26. Sometimes/ occasionally/ never/ often.

27. Truly/ falsely/ actually/really.

28. Bravely/ boldly/timidly/ courageously.

29. Idly/ lazily/ busily/ laggingly.

30. Warmly/ icily/ frigidly/ coldly.

READING ADVERBS - TRANSVERSAL WITH SOCIAL STUDIES 

Choose the pair of words that best completes the text Remember, adjectives modify nouns and pronouns and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

1.	Cole the Polar Bear snatched a ________ mackerel out of the ________ water with his vicious bear paw.

a)	slow, icy	b)	slowly, icy
c)	slow, icily	d)	slowly, icily

2.	Moss is one of the few plants resilient enough to grow ________ during the ________ summers in the Arctic Circle.

a)	good, frigid	b)	well, frigid
c)	good, frigidly	d)	well, frigidly

3.	Suzy the Snow Fox sniffed ________ at the ________ ground of the frozen tundra to no avail.

a)	hungry, bare	b)	hungry, barely
c)	hungrily, bare	d)	hungrily, barely

4.	Cole the Polar Bear danced ________ under the ________ starlight.

a)	dainty, bright	b)	daintily, bright
c)	dainty, brightly	d)	daintily, brightly

5.	Alex the Arctic Wolf shivered ________ in the ________ winds that cut across the Arctic wasteland

a)	shaky, coldly	b)	shaky, cold
c)	shakily, coldly	d)	shakily, cold

6.	Cole the Polar Bear desperately chased a ________ seal back into the ________ water.

a)	chubby, freezing	b)	chubbily, freezing
c)	chubby, freezingly	d)	chubbily, freezingly

7.	When Sean the Seal saw his son swimming in the Arctic Sea, he clapped ________ and ________.

a)	loud, proud	b)	loudly, proud
c)	loud, proudly	d)	loudly, proudly

8.	Cole the Polar Bear looked up and saw the Northern Lights blazing ________ across the ________ sky.

a)	bold, shimmering	b)	bold, shimmeringly
c)	boldly, shimmering	d)	boldly, shimmeringly

9.	Lenny the Lemming is a ________ and ________ houseguest, but at times he can be a bit of a follower.

a)	quiet, polite	b)	quietly, polite
c)	quiet, politely	d)	quietly, politely

10.	Sean the Seal swam ________ past the ________ polar bear's punishing paws.

a)	stealthy, powerful	b)	stealthily, powerful
c)	stealthy, powerfully	d)	stealthily, powerfully

11.	Tim the Trout took a hook to his ________ tail and was ________ injured while he was swimming from a killer whale.

a)	tired, serious	b)	tiredly, serious
c)	tired, seriously	d)	tiredly, seriously

12.	Sean the Seal slid ________ on the ________ snow patch while trying to escape from the Polar Bear.

a)	wild, slippery	b)	wildly, slippery
c)	wild, slipperily	d)	wildly, slipperily

13.	Cole the Polar Bear blended ________ with the ________ snow surrounding him.

a)	splendid, pale	b)	splendidly, pale
c)	splendid, palely	d)	splendidly, palely

14.	Wally the Walrus grabbed a whalebone and ________ brushed his ________ tusks.

a)	dirty, new	b)	dirtily, new
c)	dirty, newly	d)	dirtily, newly

15.	Suzy the Snow Fox dug a hole in the ________ snow to make a ________ den for the litter of kits that she expected.

a)	dirty, new	b)	dirtily, new
c)	dirty, newly	d)	dirtily, newly