Adverbs

What are adverbs?

• They are words that modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

• They are words that modify nouns, pronouns, and other adverbs.

• They are words that modify verbs.

• They are words that modify nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

What are some questions that adverbs answer?

• How often, how many, what kind, where

• Why, where, what kind, to what extent

• What kind, which one, how many, how much

• How, where, when, and to what extent

Which are the adverbs in this sentence? "Open garbage dumps sometimes pose serious health hazards since methane gas from garbage can easily catch fire."

• serious, since

• sometimes, health hazards

• sometimes, easily

• serious, easily

Which are the adverbs in this sentence? "The state park has an extremely popular swimming pool; the parking lot fills so rapidly."

• state, popular

• extremely, so, rapidly

• popular, swimming, parking

• rapidly

What word would complete the sentence correctly? "Good advice never comes too ________."

• late

• lately

What word would complete the sentence correctly? "The children adapted _______ to their new school."

• good

• well

In which of these sentences is the adverb correctly placed?

• I finished finally the report.

• I finally finished the report.

In which of these sentences is the adverb placed correctly?

• Peter is always getting into trouble.

• Peter is getting always into trouble.

• Peter always is getting into trouble.

Identify the conjunctive adverb in the following sentence. "Leon's apartment building doesn't allow pets; otherwise, he would have bought the puppy he saw in the pet shop."

• apartment

• would have

• allow

• otherwise

Identify the conjunctive adverb in this sentence. "Mia declined Joe's invitation to go out; he is determined, however, to take her to dinner sometime soon."

• sometime

• however

• determined

• soon