Showing posts with label Adverbs of Place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adverbs of Place. Show all posts

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Adverbs of Manner

Some adverbs tell us how an action is or should be performed.
Often these adverbs are formed by adding -ly to the end of an adjective.
Adjectives ending -l add -ly ; careful-carefully.
Adjectives ending -y change to -ily ; lucky-luckily
Adjectives ending -ble change to -bly ; responsible-responsibly
adjective
adverb
anxious
anxiously
bad
badly
beautiful
beautifully
capable
capably
lucky
luckily
quick
quickly
weak
weakly
For example:
The little girl ran quickly. In this sentence quickly modifies the verb ran (to run).

Adverbs of Place

Adverbs of place indicate where something happens.
These include; abroad, anywhere, here, outside, somewhere, there, underground, upstairs etc.
For example:
My passport is here in my bag.
PlaceExample
UpstairsThe children were playing upstairs.
In LondonThe people demonstrated in London.
OutsideThe children were playing outside.