hello everyone how are you today this is Marc I'm doing great thanks for asking
in English there are a lot of grammar rules however there are a myriad of
exceptions in this series I'm going to talk about all those exceptions that
other teachers don't talk about so let's take a look at what you don't know about
ADVERBS so stay tuned great so let me tell you first that adverbs are a very
important part of the English grammar why because they can modify whole
sentences or even verbs or other adverbs or adjectives obviously so let's take a
look at first what they are they are words that modify like I said the
meaning of verbs adjectives adverbs or whole sentences they're used to show
time and we have adverbs of time like you know which ones usually yes often
right always etc they can show degree so adverbs of degree which are extremely
quite just too they can show manner so adverbs of manner slowly fast quickly
softly etc they can show place adverbs of place there here nearby above south
west etc there are many lessons on my playlist on adverbs so if you wish to
watch all those lessons click here so let's take a look at my
examples then he's extremely kind to her so kind is yes an adjective so extremely
kind it goes before the adjective in this case right he's extremely kind to
her so another example you wrote the email very quickly so
quickly here is yes an adverb and very is the adverb too so it modifies quickly
very quickly let's take a look at another example why don't you speak
slowly why don't you speak slowly so here we have slowly as the adverb it
modifies what yes the verb speak so why don't you speak slowly it goes after
the verb I'm just going to talk about that the placement of adverbs in just
one minute so the next example amazingly the driver survived the crash so
amazingly here modifies the whole sentence as promised placement so where
does an adjective go well usually and I'm saying here usually before the main
verb right after the verb to be you know the verb to BE is very special
right so it goes after usually at the beginning of a sentence so if you want
to modify the whole sentence it will be at the beginning like I said before
amazingly the driver survived the crash or even at the end of a sentence like my
example why don't you speak slowly so slowly here modifies the verb speak
right and it goes after the verb and at the end of the sentence so this depends
according to the importance you want to give to the adverb these are my examples
they usually play golf on Sundays they usually play golf on Sundays so adverb
of time usually they usually play golf on Sundays
so usually modifying the verb play and it goes before play they are never late
for class well yes we have the verb to be and it
goes after the verb to be so they are never so never is the adverb of time
here and it goes right after the verb to be another example mysteriously he
walked into the room the adverb is here mysteriously and it modifies the whole
sentence right mysteriously he walked into the room so it goes before the
whole sentence and then we have other examples like he came here so here is
the adverb of place yes and it goes right after the verb or at the end of
the sentence he came here or she went there she went there adverb of place and
it goes at the end of the sentence in this case so I talked about how adverbs
can modify the meaning of verbs adjectives other adverbs or whole
sentences but how are they made well we need an adjective and we add -LY to it so
for example elegant elegantly happy happily be careful there we have a Y so
then Y turns into an I so happily like lazy lazily and we can say rare rarely
there are many others but usually we add LY at the end of adjectives
so now let's talk about intensifiers and mitigators what are they they're a
subgroup of adverbs of degree and they modify adjectives or other adverbs just
like my example her dress was wonderfully intricate so
intricate is the adjective and wonderfully is an intensifier
it intensifies the adjective intricate so wonderfully wonderfully intricate now
let's take a look at a mitigator he spoke fairly well
he spoke fairly well so well is the yes the adverb so fairly is the mitigator
there is a trend in this period to create intensifiers in slang so we
can hear hella better it's hella better than other things for example
hella better we have wicked stuff I love wicked stuff
wicked or super nice he is super nice to us he is super nice to us uber
informative so this lesson was uber informative so these are all slang
intensifiers but if you wish to use them you can
nobody's going to say you're wrong now let's talk about flat adverbs what are
they well I told you that an adverb is made by adding -LY to an
adjective flat adverbs do not change so for
example fast he drove fast we cannot say he drove
fastly he drove fast so the adverb of the adjective fast is fast but we have even
tough we can say slow slowly also is an adverb but also slow straight far
hardly down soon safe or safely for example I have some
people for dinner and I tell them drive safe we can even say drive safely but we
usually hear - drive safe then we have tight so for
example a father to a son says sleep tight not tightly sleep tight sleep well
this is what it means and then we have friendly so friendly and the adverb
friendly beware though we have only and hopefully let's take a look at them you
can only have 10 euros for the whole week so for example a father says that
to a son or to a daughter you can ONLY have 10 euros for the whole week now
what about if I said you can have ONLY 10 euros for the whole week so if I said
ONLY 10 euros for the whole week that means that the stress is in the amount
right 10 euros ONLY the difference there is obvious we place ONLY before the
amount in this case or before the adjective that we want to stress now
let's take a look at HOPEFULLY we usually say HOPEFULLY it won't rain
tomorrow HOPEFULLY it won't rain tomorrow it means I hope it won't rain
tomorrow or we can even say it won't HOPEFULLY rain tomorrow yes that's also
possible great that's it for today thank you very much for watching if you have
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