Jess Fernando Cornejo Snchez

CICLO 2013-I Mdulo:I

Unidad: 8 Semana: 8
INGLES VI
ORIENTACIONES
In this Unit you are going to learn about the
adverbs and adjectives.
Observe the use of the adverbs and their
characteristics

ADVERBS AND ADJECTIVES
Adverbs are used to modify a verb, an adjective, or
another adverb:
[1] Mary sings beautifully
[2] David is extremely intelligent
[3] This car goes incredibly fast

In [1], the adverb beautifully tells us how Mary sings.
In [2], extremely tells us how intelligent David is.
Finally, in [3], the adverb incredibly tells us how fast the
car goes.


Adverbs
Many adverbs end in -ly.
They are formed by adding -ly to an adjective:







but notice: NOT all adverbs end in -ly

Characteristics of Adverbs
Adjetive Adverb
Slow Slowly
Quick Quickly
Soft Softly
Sudden Suddenly
Gradual Gradually
Some adverbs are irregular:



Adverbs Comparative
form
Superlative
form
Well better best
Badly worse worst
little less least
much more most
Adverbs and Adjectives
Adverbs and adjectives have important characteristics in
common However adverbs do not modify nouns,
either attributively or predicatively:
Adjetive Adverb
David is a happy child David is a happily child
David is happy David is happily
Adverbs give information about the manner, time or place of
an event or action.

MANNER Answer how :
1. She sings loudly in the bath
How does she sing? Loudly
2. The sky quickly turned blue
How fast did the sky turn blue? Quickly

TIME Answers when(time and frequency):

1. I'll be back tomorrow
When are you back? Tomorrow
2. I watch television sometimes
When do you watch television? Sometimes
More about Adverbs

PLACE answers where:

1. Put the box on the table.
Where should I put the box? On the table

They express one of the circumstances relating to an
event or action:
how it happened (manner),
when it happened (time),
where it happened (place).


Adverbs of manner




She speaks loudly

Adverb of manner




She walks fast

Adverbs of manner





Shakira dances happily

Adevrb of manner




Please , drive slowly
Adverbs of manner
If you want more exercise go to this link
http://www.englisch-
hilfen.de/en/grammar/adverbien.htm

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