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Grammar
Lesson 9
Adverbs
An 
adverb 
modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by making its meaning more
specific. Adverbs answer the questions how? when? where? and to what degree? When
modifying a verb, an adverb may appear in various positions in a sentence. If modifying
an adjective or another adverb, an adverb appears directly before the modified word.
Shani said she really wanted to meet the very famous actor backstage yesterday.
The negatives no and not and the contraction -n’t are adverbs. Other negative words,
such as nowhere, hardly, and never, can function as adverbs of time, place, and degree.
My dad never loses his temper.
Haven’t you chosen the menu yet?
 Exercise 1
Underline each adverb, and draw an arrow from each adverb to the word it modifies.
The old city trolley rumbled steadily down the street.
1. My little sister regularly skips rope after school.
2. Corn harvest begins after the milk in the kernel finally becomes hard and the fodder is dried.
3. The week after a forest fire, when the earth cools down, is often the best time to plant tree
seedlings.
4. The grandchildren gleefully hunted Easter eggs scattered throughout the yard.
5. The company actually installed neon signs for the new cafe.
6. Manufacturers often fill baked pie shells with fruit topped with meringue.
7. Any list of good reptile pets almost always includes snakes, turtles, and iguanas.
8. Many people are severely allergic to poisonous plants such as ivy, hemlock, and pokeweed.
9. The artist dexterously displayed many styles of painting.