More Adverb Advice

Summary
A review lesson about adverbs and adjectives.

Objectives
• to review the concept of adverbs;

• to teach students how to identify adverbs in a sentence;

• to review some confusing adverb/adjective pairs.

Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade

Excerpt
Adverbs modify or describe verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. They answer the questions, how, when, where, and why?

Adverbs can show up almost anywhere in a sentence, so it?s not as easy to find an adverb as it is to find an adjective. Adjectives usually come right before or right after the word they modify, but adverbs can show up anywhere.

Here is a handy tip you can use to find most adverbs. Find the verb in the sentence, and then ask these three questions:

1. How was the action done?
2. When was the action done?
3. Where was the action done?

? John jumped swiftly.
Jumped is the action verb. How did John jump? Swiftly. Swiftly is the adverb.

Continued...