Adverbs

With this lesson we begin our unit on adverbs.

Welcome to today's lesson, as we begin our unit on adverbs.  As with all examples and exercises in all of our ESL Help! Desk units, the sentences you see below are contributed by other ESL students in college-level ESL classes.

To study the previous lesson,"Adjective Clauses and Sentence Combining," click here.  Otherwise, continue below.

Before you begin the activities, you may want to study the podcast and grammar lesson, He's Always Talking about Grammar, also in our Library. (This lesson is free and open to all!)

What Is an Adverb?

What is an adverb? What can an adverb modify?

An adverb can modify:
   
a verb I hope that I remember correctly.
   
  I wasn't playing well because I was nervous.
   
an adjective It was very interesting.
   
another adverb She was crying very* loudly.
   
a whole sentence Unfortunately, I didn't have time to do that.