How did I dance? Did I dance gracefully or terribly? That’s exactly what we are learning
in this lesson. How to answer the question how? That’s what we are learning today.
I’ll be glad to have you with me in this lesson so let's start.
Today we are learning adverbs of manner. What do they do? They tell us how something is
done. But for that let's start with a simple example. Okay what is this? Rabbit is a noun,
yes and runs is a verb. So what does a rabbit do? Rabbit runs. But how does the rabbit run?
He runs quickly. So what did the adverb of manner do? It tells us how did the rabbit
run. So what is the first function? The first function of an adverb of manner is, to answer
how. And it also tells us more about the verb. Yes about runs, it tells us how did the rabbit
run? He ran quickly, more about the verb or we can say modifies the verb. Can we also
say the rabbit runs or he runs fastly? Fastly? Is that correct? No, that's not correct. Fastly
is wrong. But why? What do you think about lately and hardly? Is that correct? That’s
also wrong. We’ll come to that later in the lesson when we talk about exceptions.
Let's look at the next example, dog; again a noun and what did the dog do? It fetched.
Fetched what? The stick, yes the dog fetched the stick. But how did the dog fetch the stick?
The dog fetched the stick excitedly. So excitedly here is the adverb of manner like quickly.
Adverb, great let's look at the next example. Boy, how what did he do? He laughed, but how?
the boy laughed noisily means made a lot of ugly sound not such a good sound, the boy
laughed noisily or loudly like hahahhaha, something like that. So both of these here
are adverbs. Let’s look at the next one.
Girl danced just like me beautifully, that's not like me. That’s another adverb. Let’s
look at the next example, the driver drove. What did he drive? The car but how did the
driver the car? That is the question that you can use to answer the question how. I
mean if you have the question how, the answer will always be an adverb of manner. So if
you have to find an adverb of manner, you should ask how? So the driver carelessly drove
the car. Here the adverb is carelessly. The last example, Julie sings, how does Julie
sing? Good or bad? If she sings good, what should we say? ly,ly, ly. she sings goodly.
is that correct? goodly, no. No that's not correct. She sings well. this is also an exception
and we'll come to learn about this later in the lesson. well here is an adverb but sadly
it doesn't look like an adverb. isn't it? It’s fine. let's talk about the form of
an adverb. How do we form an adverb? I’ll write it for you here. the form, so what really
is the word quick? Is it a noun, is it a verb? Quick not quickly. quickly is an adverb but
what is quick Think about it take a moment, you can pause
the video if you want to. I guess some of you've got the answer. Quick is an adjective.
yes so when you add ly to an adjective, it becomes a verb mostly but not always. It becomes
an adverb, sorry. quickly, yes this is an adverb. let’s look at another example. noisily,
so the adjective for this is, noise and the adverb is, is that how it should be right?
No, it should be this. whenever a word ends with e and you want to add ly, you remove
the e and you most probably, you always add i to that. let's look at another example,
um....beautifully. What's the adjective here? beautiful, yes and what is the adjective,
sorry adverb? And the adverb is, beautifully. is that the correct spelling? Same as this,
no I don't think so. What are we missing? We are, missing another l. So whenever a word
ends with l, we add another l and also a y to make it an adverb.
now that we have already looked at the form of how to for an adverb, we are now going
to look at the exceptions that I was talking about. So fast cannot be fastly. Fast will
always remain fast. Fast, it can be both an adjective and an adverb. for example, he runs
fast no he runs fastly. let’s look at another one. hard, hard? they all worked hardly? can
we say that they all worked hardly? no we'll say that they all worked hard, that is also
describing the verb and it is an adverb. But what do we mean by hardly? let's find out.
hardly is an adjective and hard is the adverb. hardly means something that is done with a
lot of difficulty. for example, after the accident, John could walk hardly means with
a lot of difficulty. Let's look at another example, late just like this, this is an adjective.
sorry, this is an adverb, she usually arrives late and the adverb would be. Sorry the adjective
would be lately. I haven't seen Mike lately, this means that I have not seen Mike recently.so
this one here means with a lot of difficulty and this one means recently. I hope you know
about the exceptions now.
with this we find out how to use adverbs in a sentence, what should be the structure of
the sentence? let's look at our sentences again. he runs quickly, verb, adverb. so as
we have seen that an adverb always follows a verb that means an adverb always comes after
the verb and this is the most common structure for using adverbs of manner. let's look at
another one, the dog fetched the stick excitedly, verb, adverb but what about the stick? that's
an object. so when you have an object the adverb follows the object in that case and
not the verb.
let's look at the next one, the boy laughed noisily. same as above, the first one. verb
followed by an adverb and the same is for this, verb followed by an adverb. However,
we see something different here, the driver carelessly drive the car. here the adverb
is coming before the verb. does that happen with adverbs of manner? sometimes, this is
not a wrong sentence but this is also not a common pattern. However if I am talking
about adverbs of frequency, for example I always eat chocolates. here the adverb always
or usually comes before the verb. but for adverbs of manner, we usually have the adverb
after the verb.
Now that already learnt the sentence structure, I hope you'll be able to answer all the hows
in your life that you have and you'll be easily able to communicate about different manners.
thank you so much for staying with me, I’ll be back again with another fun learning grammar
lesson, till then you take care and miss me, tudos.