THE KEY TO UNLOCKING ADVERBS

BY: RACHEL RIGSBEE

TO UNDERSTAND AN ADVERB To use an adverb, you

must understand it. An adverb modifies an

adjective,adjective, a verbverb, and another adverbanother adverb

Adverbs answer these questions: How, When, Where, To What Extent, How Often

Adverbs do not always end in Y.

HOW?-THE ADVERB HOW?-THE ADVERB WAYWAY

An adverb answers the question how. An adverb answers the question how.

Ex:The long dress was Ex:The long dress was extremelyextremely beautiful beautiful with it’s sweetheart neckline and with it’s sweetheart neckline and pearlypearly white thread.white thread.

Extremely tells how beautiful it was. Extremely tells how beautiful it was. How beautiful was the dress,?How beautiful was the dress,? The dress was extremely beautiful.The dress was extremely beautiful.Pearly tells how white the thread was. How Pearly tells how white the thread was. How

white was the thread?white was the thread? The thread was pearly white. (Notice The thread was pearly white. (Notice

how pearly doesn’t describe the thread; it how pearly doesn’t describe the thread; it isn’t pearly.).isn’t pearly.).

Why doesn’t the adverb modify the noun? Why doesn’t the adverb modify the noun? The answer is because that’s the The answer is because that’s the adjective's job.adjective's job.

WHEN- AN ADVERB WHEN- AN ADVERB QUESTOINQUESTOIN

An adverb answers the An adverb answers the question when. question when. It tells when or what time It tells when or what time

of day.of day. Ex: Lets go to the mall Ex: Lets go to the mall

tomorrow. tomorrow. Tomorrow answers the Tomorrow answers the

question when. When will question when. When will we go to the mall? we go to the mall? Tomorrow we will go to Tomorrow we will go to the mall.the mall.

WHERE- THE LOOKING WHERE- THE LOOKING QUESTIONQUESTION

An adverb answers An adverb answers the question wherethe question where

it tells where you are.it tells where you are. Ex: We are playing Ex: We are playing

outside. outside. Where are we Where are we

playing? Outside.playing? Outside.

TO WHAT EXTENT?????????TO WHAT EXTENT????????? An adverb answers the An adverb answers the

question to what extent question to what extent

Ex: It was an extremely Ex: It was an extremely horrible day.horrible day.

To what extent was the To what extent was the day horrible?day horrible?

It was extremely horrible.It was extremely horrible.

TO WHAT EXTENT- THE EXTREMES

An adverb answers the question to what extent

Ex:The sun fell swiftly.

To what extent did the sunset fall?

The sunset fell rapidly.

HOW OFTEN An adverb answers the

question to what extent when it tells how often something comes.

Ex: The pick up truck never comes here.

How often does the pick up truck come? Never.

WHAT WE LEARNEDWHAT WE LEARNED

An adverb describes an adjective, a verb, An adverb describes an adjective, a verb, and another adverb.and another adverb.

Adverbs aren’t that hardAdverbs aren’t that hard The adverb questions: how, when, where, The adverb questions: how, when, where,

to what extent, how oftento what extent, how often Not,never,ever, almost, always are usually Not,never,ever, almost, always are usually

adverbsadverbs An adverb modifies an adjective, a verb, or An adverb modifies an adjective, a verb, or

another adverb.another adverb.

Try it! Find the adverb! 1)The dog happily jumped the fence, for

he had done it three times before. 2)We weren’t finished making the fort

yesterday. 3)Did you go to the nail salon today? 4)The bird slowly turned it’s head in a

spooky manner.

Try it!- Answers 1)Happily, before 2) Not, Yesterday 3) Today 4) Slowly Did you figure it out? What were the

adverb questions?

Try it!- Answers Happily- how Before- when Not- how Yesterday-when Today- when Slowly-how THANKS FOR WATCHING!!!!!!!