1. ADVERBS!!!

2. So what’s an adverb?
Adverbs are the most difficult part of speech to conceptualize.
The traditional definition says that an adverb modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb.

3. Your teachers and the lies they tell…
In the “hard core” grammar world, an adverb modifies a verb and only a verb.
A word that modifies an adjective or an adverb is called a “qualifier” (more on these later)

4. What questions do adverbs answer?
Adverbs answer the following questions:
How?
Where?
When?
How Often?
5.Why?

5. RECAP REMEMBER: Adjectives answer the questions: What Kind? How Many?
Which One?

6. Where do adverbs occur in a sentence?
Adverbs “get around.” They can be found in the following positions:
1. At the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma:
Quickly, Jim would finish his homework.

7. 2. Adverbs can occur before the verb:
Jim quickly would
finish his homework.

8. Jim would quickly finish his homework.
3. Adverbs can occur in between the auxiliary (helping) verb and the main verb:
Jim would quickly
finish his homework.

9. 4. And an adverb can occur at the end of a sentence.
Jim would finish his
homework quickly.

10. ADVERB RULE
Adverbs are often, but not always, moveable in a sentence without changing the basic meaning of the sentence.

11. ADVERB FORM
Adverbs take the derivational suffix “ly” and the inflectional suffix “er” and “est”
Exceptions!!
Not all adverbs take on the suffixes mentioned above, that’s where your questions come in handy!

12. Adverb vs. Noun
Be careful labeling adverbs. Sometimes adverbs are nouns, sometimes they are qualifiers. Ask your questions!
I went home.
I love home.
Which “home” is an adverb, which
is a noun?

13. NOUN TEST!
An easy way to determine if a word is functioning as a noun or not, is the “it or something test.”
If you can replace the word in question with “it” or “something” that word is functioning as a noun.

14. It’s all well and good. The car runs well. (not) The car runs good.
Why is the first
sentence grammatically
correct, and the second
one is not?

15. Well vs. Good “well” is an adverb (99.% of the time)
“good” is an adjective
This exception occurs when “well” has the meaning of “healthy”—then, and only then, is it an adjective.

16. AUXILIARY VERBS! What are they?
Auxiliaries are also known as helping verbs.
They signal the main verb

17. Some auxiliaries to look for…
Have, be, do (these can be main or auxiliary verbs), can/could, may/might, shall/should, will/would, must, ought to (these express meanings of possibility or necessity).

18. characteristics Auxiliaries occur before the main verb
They can take the negative “not” or its contraction (cannot, will not, may not…)
They invert with the subject to form questions (yes/no question formation)
Ex. Jack can bake a cake.
Can Jack bake a cake?

19. QUALIFIERS/INTENSIFIERS
What do they do?
They signal adjectives and adverbs (describe or modify)
Test for qualifiers:
If you can substitute the word in questions for the word “very,” then that word is probably a qualifier.
She ran extremely fast.
What is the adverb? What is
the qualifier?

20. THE END!!!