Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel, Sparkle
English, where I teach you how to improve your level of
English. This is the second lesson in my series on the
eight parts of speech. In today's video, I'm going to
talk to you all about adverbs. So in English there are eight
parts of speech. We have nouns, pronouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions,
and interjections. In my last video, we talked about
adjectives, and in today's video, we're going to talk
about adverbs. Now, there are many different types of
adverbs, and we're going to review them in this lesson. So
what are adverbs? Adverbs are words that describe or modify
other words. An adverb can describe a verb, an adjective
or another adverb. Adverbs tell you how, when or where
something happens. For example, She walked slowly.
The baby cried loudly. Both of these words slowly and loudly
describe the actions. How did she walk? She walked slowly.
How did the baby cry? It cried loudly. So what are the main
types of adverbs? We have adverbs of manner. Adverbs of
manner answer the question how. How an action is done.
beautifully calmly, angrily, quickly, accidentally. We also
have adverbs of degree, which answer the question how much.
Almost, really, quite, too very, enough, barely. These
are all examples of adverbs of degree. We have adverbs of
frequency, which answer the question how often. Always,
usually, frequently, sometimes, rarely, never. We
also have adverbs of place, which answer the question
where. Anywhere, here, inside, near, there. And we have
adverbs of time, which answer the question when. Already,
immediately, eventually, later, lately, now, soon,
then, today, tomorrow. These are all examples of these
types of adverbs. So let's talk about each type in more
detail. First, let's talk about adverbs of manner, which
answer the question how adverbs of manner describe how
something is done. She played the piano beautifully. How did
she play the piano? Beautifully. The teacher
calmly explained the lesson. How did the teacher explain
the lesson? Calmly. David ran up the stairs quickly. Now
let's talk about adverbs of degree. Adverbs of degree help
us to express how much or to what intensity we do
something. Is your tea hot enough? I really like my new
doctor. She almost finished painting the house. So adverbs
of degree help us express the intensity. Is it hot enough?
How much or to what intensity? Do you like your doctor? I
really like my doctor. Next, we have adverbs of frequency,
which help us to express how often an action happens. I
always drink coffee before breakfast. Bobby never eats
mushrooms. Jessica usually goes to the gym after work. So
adverbs of frequency help us express if we do something a
little bit or a lot, or never. Next we have adverbs of place.
Adverbs of place describe where something happens or
will happen. I've lived here for two years. Why are you
sitting there? She just walked inside the restaurant. And
finally we have adverbs of time. Adverbs of time describe
when something happens or will happen. I will call you later.
My boss said I need to finish the reports immediately.
He's taking me on a date tomorrow. Okay. So when people
talk about adverbs versus adjectives, they are usually
referring to adverbs of manner. And we usually form
this type of adverb by adding -ly to an adjective. For
example, we have the adjective calm, which becomes calmly as
an adverb of manner. Quiet becomes quietly. Careful
becomes carefully. Happy becomes happily. Notice that
with an adjective ending in a -y, we change that to -ily.
Not happly, we say happily, just like angry becomes
angrily reasonable becomes reasonably. We take off the E
of reasonable and add an LY. So, adjective example. He is a
calm man. The teacher is calm. In both of these examples, we
are using calm the adjective. However, as an adverb, we can
say he spoke calmly to the students or he calmly spoke to
the students. Usually we put the adverb of manner after the
verb. But if you want to place emphasis on the adverb, you
can also place it in front of the verb. He calmly spoke to
the students, not he angrily spoke to the students. Both of
these are correct. And in both of these, we're describing how
the action was done. So let's talk about irregular adverbs
of manner. So we have the adjective good. As an adverb,
we say well. We do not say goodly. For example. He is a
good soccer player. We don't say he plays soccer. goodly.
Goodly is incorrect. This is irregular. We say he plays
soccer well. And we also don't say he plays soccer good,
because good is an adjective. The rest of these adjectives
stay the same as both an adjective and an adverb. Fast,
fast, hard, hard, late, late. Early, early, high, high, low,
low, right, right. Wrong, wrong. So, for example,
Elizabeth is a fast runner. We don't say Elizabeth runs
fastly. Fastly is incorrect. It is not a word. The adverb
is the same as the adjective. Elizabeth runs fast. So these
are ones you will have to memorize. Okay, let's do our
quiz. We have seven questions. Are these sentences correct?
Number one, I walked quickly to the store. Number two, can
you please be quiet? We're in a library. Number three,
Beth's in her bedroom. She's studying hardly. Number four.
Dad drove carefully because the weather was terrible.
Number five, Lauren speaks English good. Number six, she
calmly broke up with her boyfriend. Number seven. I
arrived lately for the party because there was a lot of
traffic. Okay, let's correct these together. Number one is
correct. We have the adverb quickly and that is correct.
Number two is incorrect. Can you please speak quiet? Quiet
is an adjective. We need to say quietly. Can you please
speak quietly? Because the adverb is modifying the verb
speak. Number three, Beth's in her bedroom. She's studying
hardly. This is incorrect. We want to say she's studying
hard. Hard stays the same for both the adjective and the
adverb. Number four is correct. We have the adverb
carefully, and it is correct. Number five is incorrect.
Lauren speaks English good.
We want to use an adverb here, and good is not the adverb
because we need to modify speaks. So Lauren speaks
English well, not good. Well. Number six, she calmly broke
up with her boyfriend. That is correct. And number seven is
incorrect. I arrived lately for the party because there
was a lot of traffic. We don't say lately. We say I arrived
late. It stays the same. The word lately means recently.
For example. Lately, I have been eating a lot of sushi.
That means recently, but in this case, we are talking
about arriving late for the party. So we have to use the
adverb late. Okay, so let me know in the comments section
how many you got correct out of seven. And if you have any
questions, you can feel free to leave a question in the
comments section below. If you want more lessons on the eight
different parts of speech, you can watch my video on
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lessons which I will be releasing talking about the
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