Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Five, Lesson Three: Adverbs

  1. clamp
  2. damp
  3. stamp
  4. tramp
  5. hamper
  6. weather
  7. clouds
  8. storm
  9. hurricane
  10. tornado
  1. humidity
  2. intense
  3. pressure
  4. colonize
  5. expedition
  6. territory
  7. expand
  8. settle
  9. mission
  10. explorers
Adverbs

Adverbs are used to describe how something is done. In other words, they modify a verb. For instance consider the following adverbs and how they might be used with a verb such as "walk". 


	slowly		quickly		energetically

	sluggishly	steadily	tirelessly
The adverb helps you to picture how a person is walking. It's not always enough just to say that someone walked. It is often useful to know how they walked. So, adverbs are one way of supplying more details to help the reader to understand what you mean exactly.

Adverbs can be created from adjectives by adding -ly. Here are some examples. 


	ADJECTIVE		ADVERB
	 rapid			 rapidly
	 sudden			 suddenly
	 quick			 quickly
	 forceful		 forcefully
	 sweet			 sweetly
	 gentle			 gently
Not all adverbs end in ly. Here are some examples: very, far, too, and always.

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