tailieunhanh - Building grammar skills for TOEFL IBT part 14

Tham khảo tài liệu 'building grammar skills for toefl ibt part 14', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Building Grammar Skills Grammar Point 50 - Introduction to Adverbs Adverbs give very much information - they can describe Verbs Adjectives and other Adverbs. eg They run quickly quickly describes run -a verb He studies daily daily describes studies - a verb Paid lias a slightly damaged car. slightly describes damaged - an adjective She is wearing her light-blue sweater light describes blue -an adjective It is an extremely-well written letter extremely describes well an adverb Theirs as a very long-livedmonarchy very describes long-lived - an adverb Remember - anything that gives information about a verb or adjective or adverb is considered an adverb. It can be a word phrase or clause - often preposition phrases are considered adverbs because they give information about verbs. Exercise In the following sentences underline the subject once and the verb twice. Then put angle brackets around any adverb or adverb structure. 1. Little is known about his early years but Genghis Khan was born sometime around H62 in Hentiy Mongolia. 2. The last imperial monarch in Europe was the King-Emperor George VI who naled as Emperor of India. 3. Most medieval historians would argue that the existence of France did not really begin until the advent oi the Capetian Dynasty in 987. 4. Coats of arms have their origins in the designs used by medieval knights to make their armor and shield stand out in battle or tournaments. 5. The water-meadow at Runnymede is the most likely location at which in 1215 King John sealed the Magna Carta and the charter itself indicates Runnymede by name. Because they arc much more powerful than adjectives the rules concerning adverbs are stricter. 207 Copyrighted material Building Grammar Skills Things to remember about adverbs Most adverbs can go anywhere in rhe sentence without changing the meaning. The only place that an adverb cannot go is between the verb and the object . Regularly I walk my dog. I regularly walk my dog. I walk my dog regularly .