Adverbs

Slide 1 : ADVERBS Presented by: Sunita Kadian English Language & Soft Skills Trainer sunitakadian@yahoo.com

What is an adverb? : What is an adverb? An adverb typically modifies a verb. It tells us how, when, where, why, or how often an action takes place. He plays well. Rita left sulkily. They arrived late. Don’t sit there.

Slide 3 : Adverbs can also modify adjectives and other adverbs. It is a very unusual colour. Only four students are present. They came extremely quickly.

Slide 4 : Adverbs can also modify prepositions, etc: Her parents are dead against her decision to work in a BPO. Ramesh has hardly any money with him. Over two hundred deaths were reported after the disaster. Nearly everybody seemed to be at the party.

Slide 5 : Adverbs can also appear ‘outside’ the normal structure of sentences, telling you something about the speaker’s attitude towards the event reported. Perhaps, they will agree. Hopefully, the shoes will fit. The dress, unfortunately, was ruined.

Slide 6 : Adverbial phrases are small strings of words that do the same job as single word adverbs. I’ll see him on Saturday. She’s in the kitchen. The thief ran down the road. The mobile phones rang all at once. He is playing to win. ADVERBIAL PHRASES

Slide 7 : Adverbs can have front, mid or end position FRONT- POSITION Front-position is before the subject: Fortunately I had plenty of food with me. MID-POSITION Mid-position is immediately before the main verb, if no auxiliaries are present: She often gets headaches. POSITION OF ADVERBS

Slide 8 : If there is an auxiliary present, the adverb is placed after the auxiliary: We will surely take care of this. If there is more than one auxiliary verb present, the adverb is placed after the first auxiliary: This is an idea which has never been tried.

Slide 9 : Occasionally a mid-position adverb comes before the auxiliary verb in order to put more stress on the auxiliary: It never was my intention to make things difficult for you.

: END-POSITION End-position is after the verb, if there is no object or complement present, otherwise it comes after an object or complement: It happened suddenly. Don’t call him now.

Slide 11 : ADVERBS Presented by: Sunita Kadian English Language & Soft Skills Trainer sunitakadian@yahoo.com