Cleverly Learning about Adverbs

What is an adverb?Demonstrate this sentence:

The students ate their lunch.

Now try this:The students noisily ate their lunch.The students ate their lunch greedily.The students carelessly ate their lunch.The students ate their lunch politely.

AdverbsAdverbs can add moredetail to sentences by

describing verbs.

What are the adverbs in these sentences?

The students noisily ate their lunch.The students ate their lunch greedily.The students carelessly ate their lunch.The students ate their lunch politely.

Can you think of other adverbs that might fit in this sentence and change the meaning?

AdverbsAdverbs can tell how an action happened. They can come before or after the verbs they describe.

Kim walked up to the horse bravely. (walked how?)

She carefully sat on the horse. (sat how?)The horse stood quietly. (stood how?)Suddenly it galloped. (galloped how?)

Find the adverb in each Find the adverb in each sentence. sentence.

• Kim’s horse ran swiftly.• Suddenly they came to a fence.• The horse jumped the fence nicely.• It landed safely on its feet.• Kim happily patted the horse’s neck.

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Change the adverb in each sentence to change

the meaning of the sentence.

They drove quickly to the stable.

Calmly Omi put the saddle on Daisy.

Daisy poked Omi gently with her nose.

The horse easily carried Omi on her back.

Daisy held her head proudly.

Gracefully she trotted across the field.