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XXIII - GRAMMAR Placing adverbs

PLACING ADVERBS

There are three places in a sentence where adverbs can go:

At the beginning of a sentence or clause:

Suddenly I had earache.
Recently I had earache.

In the middle of a sentence:

I suddenly had earache.
I recently had earache.

At the end of a sentence or clause:

I had earache suddenly.
I had earache recently but it’s fine now.

How do you know where the adverb goes?

Adverbs that tell you ‘how often’ can go in the mid-position in a sentence:

I’m usually working at weekends.
I never said I liked you.

Other adverbs may fit more comfortably at the beginning or end of a sentence:

Yesterday I went to the skate park.
I went to the skate park yesterday.

The best way to know if the order is right is to say the sentence to yourself. Does it sound right?

She often is late.
She is often late. (This sounds better.)

XXII - GRAMMAR - Adverbs

Adverbs


Adverbs are words that tell us more about verbs - they add information to the verb.
(A verb is a ‘doing’ word or a ‘being’ word: eg walk, feel.)
Using adverbs makes your sentences more interesting. Any verb you use can have an adverb added:

The girl smiled nervously.
The boy grinned sheepishly.
The light shone feebly.

We use adverbs:

• To say how something happens:
  The family walk (how?) quickly.
• To say where or when something happens:
  I met him (when?) yesterday.
• To say how often something happens:
  She gets the bus (how often?) daily.
• To make the meaning of an adjective, adverb or verb stronger or weaker:
  Dave eats (degree?) more slowly than his wife.

Adverbs are often created from adjectives (describing words that tell you more about nouns) by adding -ly to the end of the adjective: For example:

• slow becomes slowly: Joe is a slow person. He walks slowly. 

Certain words change when they become adverbs. If an adjective ends in a ‘y’ you need to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ before adding ‘-ly’. For example:

• happy becomes happily
• heavy becomes heavily 

XXI - GRAMMAR Adjectives

ADJECTIVES

Adjectives are describing words - they tell you more about nouns.

Nouns are ‘naming’ words - they are used to name a person, place or thing.

Adjectives tell you more about the noun. Using adjectives makes your sentences more interesting. For example: The pretty girls laughed.

In this sentence:

‘girls’ is the noun (it says who’s laughing).

‘pretty’ is the adjective (it says more about the noun).

Here are two more sentences with nouns and adjectives:

The fat captain ate dinner.

Old Hani and I drove up the big hill.

Remember that adjectives tell you about the noun, they describe the noun. Don’t confuse adjectives with adverbs. Adverbs describe the verb, they tell you more about an action. For example, ‘he laughed loudly’.

Remember that adjectives usually come before the noun.

You can use more than one adjective if you need to.

eg Joe loved driving his parents’ expensive, new car home along the beautiful, long, winding coast road.

Adjectives can also come after the verb ‘to be’.

eg Sam is blonde and gorgeous.

Increase the range of adjectives you use to make your writing more interesting. For example: ‘nice’ can be replaced by friendly, tasty, sunny, interesting, pretty, comfortable etc, depending on what you are describing.