Adverbs | Learn English | Canguro English

Join Sandra and I as we study adverbs. Don't forget to read the notes below. See you in class! ***** Official Facebook group:   / canguroenglish   Instagram:   / canguroenglish   ***** Become a patron and sponsor free English education here:   / canguroenglish   ***** Adjectives describe nouns, and adverbs describe verbs and adjectives and adverbs. So adverbs tell you how something happens or how somebody does something. Adverbs can also modify certain adjectives, to describe their degree. For example, He is especially handsome. TYPES OF ADVERBS Let's look at all the different types of adverbs; The classic adverb - describes verbs - He drives his car slowly and carefully. Modifiers - modify adjectives - This is a very easy class Conjuncts - linking sentences - Firstly, secondly, also, then, on the other hand, as a result Disjuncts - making comments - Fortunately, personally, obviously Adjuncts - providing additional information - You are learning English at top speed ADVERB FORMATION Most adverbs in English are formed by adding -ly to the adjective, for example; quick/quickly careful/carefully bad/badly You will have to memorise the other adverbs. Note that not all words that end in -ly are adverbs, e.g. friendly, silly. Sometimes in informal English, people use the adverbs without -ly, for example; She drives real slow ADVERB POSITION The position of the adverb depends on whether there is a noun in the phrase or not. If the phrase has a noun, we put the adverb after the noun, if the phrase does not have a noun we put the adverb directly after the verb. If we are using and adjective and an adverb together, then we put the adverb before the adjective, for example; It was a reasonably good film This ice cream is amazingly good! Finally, if you are using a tense with the past participle, then you can put the adverb before or after the verb, for example; The meeting was badly organised The meeting was organised badly In general, we need to keep the verb together with the adverb otherwise the connection will be lost and it won't make sense, for example; Extremely quickly and easily we are learning English We are learning English extremely quickly and easily