2. Adverbs These lovely little things tell us how an action (verb) is being done. An adverb describes the verb. quickly Superman flew quickly. Quickly is the adverb.

3. How do you tell which word is an adverb? It’s dead easy! The dog barked loudly. 2 questions. What did the dog do? Barked (Verb) How did it do it? Loudly (adverb)

4. Adverbs in English It is really easy to spot an adverb in English as most of them end in ‘ly’ Quickly Loudly Hurriedly Noisily Quietly

5. Adverbs in Spanish It is just as easy to spot them in Spanish as they tend to end in ‘mente’. altamente seriamente sabrosamente

6. How to form adverbs in Spanish 1.Find the adjective. 2.Spell it in the feminine way. 3.Add ‘mente’ on the end. 1. Quick = adjective = rápido. 2.rápida 3.rápidamente and there you have ‘quickly’ in Spanish Piece of cake!!!

7. comfortably cómodo cómoda cómodamente

8. generously generoso generosa generosamente

9. romantically romántico romántica románticamente

10. quietly tranquilo tranquila tranquilamente

11. healthily sano sana sanamente

12. calmly sereno serena serenamente

13. magnificently magnífico magnífica magníficamente

14. seriously serio seria seriamente

15. fortunately fortunado fortunada fortunadamente

16. unfortunately desafortunado desafortunada desafortunadamente What a word!!!

17. There are a couple which are used frequently but do not follow the pattern We cannot say ‘I play good.’ We say ‘I play well’ ‘well’ is the adverb ‘good’ is the adjective What is the word for ‘good’ in Spanish? bueno To make the adverb ‘well’ we change it to bien Toco bien… I play well

18. What is the adverb of ‘bad’ in English? Badly In English, this adjective and adverb follow the pattern. In Spanish they don’t What is the word for ‘bad’ malo and ‘badly’? mal Toco mal…I play badly