ADVERBS - Parts of Speech Lesson 5 - Basic English Grammar - What is an Adverb - Examples, Exercises

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Learn how to use ADVERBS correctly in this video. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ ALL GRAMMAR LESSONS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ➜ VERBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LciKb0uuFEc&index=2&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ NOUNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sBYpxaDOPo&index=3&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ PRONOUNS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrAJB4VohA&index=4&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ ADJECTIVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmeV6RYcf0&index=5&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ CONJUNCTIONS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FdEaeD1MdY&index=7&list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 For more FREE English lessons, SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Transcript: Hey there, in this lesson, I am going to teach you all about adverbs. You will learn what is an adverb, what are the different types of adverbs and how to use adverbs correctly. We will focus on avoiding common mistakes in two areas comparative and superlative forms and then the very important topic, putting adverbs in the correct position in a sentence. So let’s start. Before we begin, as always, if you have any questions at all, just let me know in the comments section below, and I will talk to you there. Alright, so to start, let me ask you a question what is an adverb? Some people say adverbs are like adjectives – you know adjectives (words like good, bad, beautiful, tall, short etc.) they give information about nouns. So people say adverbs give information about verbs. Well, that’s only half-correct. Because adverbs are very talented words they can give us information about verbs but they can also give us information about adjectives, other adverbs and even about whole sentences. Now adverbs are all around us – words like slowly, unfortunately, very, enough, tomorrow, however, always and so on and so forth. I’m sure you use adverbs all the time. But why do we use them? Well we use adverbs because they answer some important questions about our sentences questions like when, where, how, how much, how often etc. Take a look at these examples: in number one, ‘He ate the sandwich quickly’ - ‘quickly’ is the adverb it gives information about the verb ‘ate’ how did he eat the sandwich? He ate it quickly. In number two, how beautiful is Tami in that dress? She is really beautiful (it means very beautiful). So the adverb ‘really’ modifies the adjective ‘beautiful’ that means it gives information about the adjective. In number three, we have an adverb of place. Can you identify it? It’s the word ‘here’ which gives us the answer to the question ‘where’. In number four, we have an adverb of time – which is it? It’s ‘yesterday’ and it tells us when. And in number five, can you identify the adverb? The adverb is the word ‘sometimes’ which answers the question ‘How often’ – How often do I drink coffee? Every morning? No, only sometimes. So here you see all the different things that adverbs can do. And based on these functions (or the different jobs that they do), adverbs are divided into five common types. Let’s talk about that. OK, adverbs are usually classified as adverbs of manner, degree, place, time and frequency. Adverbs of manner tell us how (that is, in what way an action happens). Adverbs of degreetell us how much (very good, really strong and so on). Adverbs of placeand time tell us where and when. Adverbs of frequency tell us how often (always, never, sometimes and etc.). Now there are also many other types such as adverbs of opinion - ‘fortunately’, ‘personally’, ‘sadly’ etc. these help us to express our point of view, and there are also connecting or linking adverbs like ‘moreover’, ‘however’, ‘on the other hand’, ‘therefore’ etc. But the most important adverbs for us are the five that we discussed. OK, at this point, I want to give you an important tip about words that end with ‘ly’ When you say adverb, people generally think of words like slowly, quickly, happily, sadly, quietly, loudly and so on. So it’s easy to think that all adverbs end with ‘ly’. But this is not true. In this chart, you can see many examples of adverbs that have this ending. Also, there are many adjectives that end with ‘ly’ words like friendly (like She’s a friendly person) or lovely (what a lovely bouquet – that’s a bunch of flowers) these are adjectives, not adverbs. So remember: many adverbs don’t end with ‘ly’ and some words that end with ‘ly’ can be adjectives. So, now, before we go any further, I want to give you a quick test and check if you can identify adverbs correctly.