Adverbs Flashcards
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What are adverbs?
Words that modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
When an adverb modifies a verb they are indicating
when, where, how, or how often an action is performed.
Some adjectives can be transformed into adverbs, by doing what to their form?
Adding an -ly (angry -> angrily or clever -> cleverly)
What are the categories of adverbs?
Time
Location or direction
Manner
Degree
Reason
Number
What are the three degrees of adverb comparison?
Positive, comparative, superlative
The positive degree of comparison expresses
The quality without comparison
The comparative degree of comparison compares
Two verbs, adjectives, or adverbs
The superlative degree of comparison compares
Three or more verbs, adjectives, or adverbs
Degrees of comparison by adverb, how would you use this process for the adverb capriciously?
Positive: capriciously
Comparative: more capriciously or less capriciously
Superlative: most capriciously or least capriciously
Degrees of comparison by suffix, how would you use this process for the adverb early?
Positive: early
Comparative: earlier
Superlative: earliest
Where do you position the adverb?
It depends. Best rule is to keep it as close to the word that it modifies.
Is bad an adjective or adverb?
Adjective
Is “I scored good on my spelling test” using correct grammar? Why or why not?
No, good is an adjective not an adverb.
What are the interrogative adverbs?
How, when, where, and why
What are negative and affirmative adverbs?
No, not, and yes
Where are the adverbs yes and no typically positioned in a sentence?
In the beginning and set apart with commas.
True or false: yes and no can express a complete idea.
True
The negative adverb not is usually positioned
Between words in a verb phrase, but it is not a part of the verb phrase, it’s an independent adverb
What is the negative adverb “not”’s job?
To switch the meaning of the verb to its exact opposite
What is the double negative construction?
When you use two negatives in a sentence to change the meaning to a positive.
What is an adverbial?
Sentence elements that perform the same function as an adverb, commonly in the form of an adverb phrase, a noun phrase, or a prepositional phrase.
