Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Welcome to englishgrammarspot. This lesson is about adverbs. Take a look at these sentences She sings beautifully. He felt poorly after he fell from the stairs. The words that are underlined are adverbs. In this lesson I'm going to show you what adverbs exactly are, the different types of adverbs, how to form an adverbs, how to place an adverbs in a sentence and the exceptions. I'm going to take you through the most common exceptions, not all. Now what are adverbs? Adverbs add extra information to a verb. For example: He arrived home safely. Safely here says something about arriving we could also say he arrived home early and here early would be an adverb. It also comments on an adjective. Remember an adjective says someting about a noun. She wore a brightly coloured dress. Dress in this sentence is a noun. Coloured here is an adjective because it says something about the dress but brightly says something about the way it was coloured. We could also say she that she wore a pink coloured dress and then pink would be an adverb. It also says something about other at adverbs. For example: She did her job fairly well. Well says something about the manner in which she did her job and fairly says something about well, we could also say she did her job reasonably well. An adverbs also says something about a sentences or a clause. Honestly I feel very ill. Here the adverbs comments on the entire sentence there are many different types of adverbs, First there are adverbs of manner, these adverbs say someting about how it happens. He looked at me carefully. We could also say he looked at me slowly it says something about the way he looked at me. The museum will slowly go bankrupt no quickly, slowly. He plays football well There are also adverbs of place, where does it happen. My keys must be somewhere. Here somewhere is an adverb. There they are or here they are. These are adverbs. We had to travel quite far. There are also adverbs of time when doesn't happen. Finaly, which means in the end, he managed to grow a beard. He eventually came home. He rang her immediately after he had heard the news. There are also adverbs of frequency, how often does it happen. I always brush my teeth before going to bed. She's often late for work. My aunt never rings me on my birthday. Other types of adverbs of frequency are, sometimes or regularly. Now we also have adverbs of degree in what way does it happen. He arrived home fairly late. This cake can be made quite easily and they are definitely right. Finally sentence adverbs, they comment on an entire sentence or a clause. Frankly I'm fed up with you. The child clearly wanted some ice cream. He loved her very much obviously. Usually but not always as you can see in the second sentence, these adverbs can be found at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. Now how do we form an adverb? Please note that there is a clear difference in form between an adverb and an adjective. Remember an adjective says something about a noun. To form an adverb, we usually take an adjective and we add -ly to this adjective. We quickly packed our bags and left. They don't normally sell these shoes. So quick and normal are adjectives and now we've added -ly to them and now they've become adverbs. We need to pay attention to adverbs in a -y. For example easy and happy here the -y becomes an 'i' for example they passed the exams easily and we are happily married. Now please note: that there is dry/dryly and shy/ shyly. this is basically because these adjectives only have one syllable. We also need to pay attention to adjectives ending 'ic', for example specific or terrific. Here we add 'ally.' For example: They specifically asked for a room with a view He won the match terrifically. Please note that it is: public and publicly. So it's an exception. Now where do we place adverbs? We also need to pay attantion to adverbs of frequency so always, never, sometimes, regularly etc. these adverbs of frequency become before the main verb or after a form of 'to be.' For example He often works late. She is never in time for dinner. 'Is' is a form of 'to be' so we place the adverb after 'is.' Now pay attention to the following sentence: They can always call me in times of need. Here we have two verbs we have 'can' and 'call' but since call here is the main verb, the main action we put the adverb in front of the main verb. For all other adverbs, they can be placed anywhere in a sentence. But adverbs of place become before adverbs of time. We basically say: place before time. For example I searched for my diary everywhere yesterday. Everywhere is an adverbs and yesterday is an adverb. But since everywhere denotes place, and yesterday denotes time, we place yesterday at the end of the sentence. Obviously you could also say: Yesterday, I searched for my diary everywhere. A time can eithet be at the beginning of a sentence or at the end of a sentence. Now let's take a look at some of the exceptions some adjectives don't change when used as an adverb. Yearly, daily, weekly etc. early but then again it already looks like an adverb. liitle long, fast, next. These are some of the adjectives that don't change, there are more, I have selected the most common ones. You also need to pay attention to the words good and well. They have the same meaning, but good is an adjective as you can see in he is a swimmer. Good says something about a noun: swimmer. He swims well and here we use the adverb, because it says something about the way he swims the verb. Some adjectives change in meaning when we add '-ly.' So fair means honest but fairly means reasonably. hard as in tough but hardly almost none. Late as in not early but lately as in recently, Near as in close and nearly as in almost. So we cannot change these simply into an adverb. You need to pay good attention when adding something to an adjective. Certain verbs that we call copulas require an adjective not an adverb. These verbs these are the most common ones, so not all: to appear, to be, to become, to feel, get, to keep, to seem to smell, to sound, to taste. Please note that I have put an '*' after, to get, to smell, to taste because these can also be common verbs. So they're not always copulas. So pay attention to these sentences This food tastes great. and here great is an adjective, because it says something about the taste but if we say he tasted the food carefully here it says something about the verb itself in the way he tasted it. So when he says the food tastes great, great says something about the food but when we say he tasted the food carefully, we say something about the way he tasted it, the verb. I thank you for your attention for regular updates please subscribe to youtube.com/englishgrammarspot or go to www.englishgrammarspot.com
A2 UK adverb adjective sentence coloured pay attention main verb adverbs - English grammar tutorial video lesson 1106 118 pao2ge posted on 2014/12/01 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary