Adverb
Adverbs are used to add more information
about a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a clause or a whole sentence and,
less commonly, about a noun phrase.
Adverbs are words that
modify:
a verb (He drove slowly. How did he drive?)
an adjective (He drove a
very fast car. How fast was his car?)
another adverb (She moved quite
slowly down the aisle. How slowly did she move?)
Adverbs
can modify adjectives, but an adjective can not modify an adverb. Like
adjectives, adverbs can have comparative and superlative forms to show degree.
The student who reads fastest
will finish first.
As an
adverb modifies the verb of a sentence, it is called an Adverb Clause:
When this class is over, we're going to the movies.
The
adverbs of frequency "often, generally, frequently, rarely, regularly,
sometimes" are often placed between the subject and the main verb in the
simple tenses but may also be placed after the main verb (or after the object,
if any).
Depending
on their function and meaning, adverbs may stand before adjectives, before
other adverbs, after verbs, at the end of sentences, at the beginning of
sentences, between the auxiliary and the main verb.
This song is very popular.
Mike learned the lyrics very quickly.
He sings beautifully.
He sings this song
beautifully.
Sometimes, Mike and his
sister sing this song together.
Some
adverbs of frequency can stand before the verb in the simple tenses and between
the auxiliary and the main verb in the
perfect tenses.
How often does he sing this
song? Does he sing it often?
He never sings this song. He
often sings this song. He sings it very often.
He has already sung it. He
has sung it already.
S + Auxiliary Verb + V + O +
C + adverb + adverb of place + adverb of time.
to where: nereye?
For the first evidence of
money as currency, we need to go back 5,000 years to where modern-day
Iraq now sits, to find ‘the shekel’.
