Exploring the Power of Adverbs in Sentence Structure

What part of speech is known to modify verbs?

• Adjectives

• Adverbs

• Prepositions

• Nouns

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Which of the following is not an adverb?

• Beautifully

• Quickly

• Happiness

• Outside

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What change does an adverb make to a verb?

• It names the action.

• It locates the action in time.

• It changes the action.

• It describes the action.

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Which of the following adverbs tells 'how' something is done?

• Yesterday

• Swiftly

• There

• Today

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How do adverbs often end?

• In 's'

• In 'ed'

• In 'ly'

• In 'ing'

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What does the adverb 'fearfully' tell us about Lance's action of boarding the plane?

• Why he boarded

• How he boarded

• When he boarded

• Where he boarded

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Which sentence shows an adverb telling 'where'?

• She is very tall.

• They looked everywhere.

• He ran yesterday.

• She sings beautifully.

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Which word in the sentence 'Amy quickly walked across the street.' is an adverb?

• Street

• Quickly

• Walked

• Amy

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In the sentence 'Hal played his harmonica yesterday.', what does 'yesterday' tell us?

• Why Hal played

• When Hal played

• Where Hal played

• How Hal played

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What question do you ask to find an adverb in a sentence?

• Who or what?

• How, when, or where?

• Which one?

• How many?

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