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Adverbs: uses
Adverbs are one of the four major word classes, along with nouns, verbs and adjectives. We use
adverbs to add more information about a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a clause or a whole
sentence and, less commonly, about a noun phrase.

Can you move it carefully? It’s fragile.

Quickly! We’re late.


She swims really well.

Don’t go so fast.

You have to turn it clockwise.

Come over here.

Actually, I don’t know her.


I haven’t seen them recently.
The bathroom’s upstairs on the left.

Adverbs: meanings and functions


Adverbs have many different meanings and functions. They are especially important for indicating
the time, manner, place, degree and frequency of something.

time I never get up early at the weekends.

manner Walk across the road carefully!

place When we got there, the tickets had sold out.


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degree It’s rather cold, isn’t it?

frequency I’m always losing my keys.

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Adverbs: types

Adverb phrases

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01 Do or make?

02 Present perfect continuous (I have been working)

03 At, on and in (place)

04 Future: will and shall

05 Dates

06 Suffixes

07 Present simple (I work)

08 Phrasal verbs and multi-word verbs

09 Prefixes

10 As … as

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