English Language - adverbs

1. TELLS US MORE ABOUT A
VERB IN A SENTENCE

2. Adverbs answer the questions:

3. Adverbs of
manner
How?
Adverbs of
time
When?
Adverbs of
place
Where?
Adverbs of
degree
How much?
Slowly
Fast
Loudly
Carefully
Beautifully
Well
After
Before
Never
Today
Yesterday
Away
Inside
Everywhere
Upstairs
Extremely
Very
Really
Quite
terribly

4. Some prepositions
do the work of adverbs
Describes the relationship
of other words in a sentence
Eg. The astronaut is in the
spaceshipIf it has an object, it’s a preposition
If it doesn’t have an object then it is an
adverb.
Billy ran up the stairs -----up is often a
preposition.
Does this sentence have an object?
Yes! - stairs
Let us look at this sentence
Billy looked up and saw the alien
spacecraft
This sentence also has the word up.
But up in this example is used
As an adverb
What is it describing?
looked

5. These are called
prepositional adverbs

6. Let us make some
sentences