Foundation beginner easy
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.
Foundation — The building blocks of English grammar.
1. Manner: quickly, carefully (how). 2. Time: now, yesterday, soon (when). 3. Place: here, there, everywhere (where). 4. Frequency: always, often, never (how often). 5. Degree: very, quite, almost (how much). 6. Position: frequency adverbs go before the main verb but after "be": He always arrives early; She is always late.
Adverbs of manner usually end in -ly. "Hard" is an adverb without -ly; "hardly" means almost not — a classic confusion.
हिंदी में
क्रिया-विशेषण क्रिया की विशेषता बताता है — कैसे, कब, कहाँ, कितनी बार। Frequency adverbs मुख्य क्रिया से पहले आते हैं।
Q1. Which sentence contains an error?
Answer: She sings beautiful.
💡 Need the adverb: "sings beautifully".
Q2. Choose the correct form: "He did the work ___."
Answer: carefully
💡 Adverb of manner → carefully.
Q3. Choose the adverb in: "She spoke very softly."
Answer: softly
💡 Softly modifies the verb "spoke" → adverb.
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Open Adverbs lesson → Free practice — Sign up| Topic | Level | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Parts of Speech | beginner | The eight word classes that English sentences are built from. |
| Nouns | beginner | Nouns name people, places, things and ideas. |
| Pronouns | beginner | Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition. |
| Verbs | beginner | Verbs express actions, events and states. |
| Adjectives | beginner | Adjectives describe or qualify nouns and pronouns. |
| Articles | beginner | A, an and the — the small words that signal nouns. |
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