This video is about "adverbs." Adverbs are important because they can modify a sentence's verb, adjective or other adverbs. There can actually be adverbs of time, place, manner, degree and frequency. The latter will be taught in another lesson. They usually end with -LY, but there are many exceptions. This lesson is for elementary students who wish to study or review English grammar and for students who reached an advanced level but who wish to brush up on some grammar rules.
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Hello, everyone. This is Marc. Sorry about my voice today. I have a sore throat. I have
a sentence for you today. So English can be easy at times. Only if you study hard, though.
Today I'm going to talk about adverbs. Okay, let's take a look at my introductory sentence
and I'm going to pick an adverb. In this case, I choose, let's say, hard. Okay, hard is an adverb
in this case. Hard can also be an adjective. How do I know is an adverb? Okay, because I asked the
question, how do I study? Okay, or how do you study? And the answer is hard. Okay, adverbs modify adjectives,
verbs, and even adverbs. Adverbs usually end with ly. Okay, the majority of them. But there are others, such as
hard that don't. These are exceptions. There are others like fast, well, hard, and so on. Okay, if you were
wondering about hardly, well, hardly, it means scarcely. It means rarely. Okay, barely. It doesn't mean hard as
hard. So the adverb of hard, of the adjective hard, is hard. Okay, so let's take a look at my sentence again. Okay,
English can be easy to learn only if you study hard, though. Okay, here we have other adverbs, and I can mention
only if, okay, and though also. Now, let's take a look at where we can place them and what types of adverbs they are. So we
have adverbs of time, and these are placed right after the main verb or at the end of the clause that they modify. So I'm
speaking English now. So now is the adverb right here. There are also adverbs of place. They go right after the verb or
the clause that they modify. So here, there. Okay, these are adverbs. So I can say, I'm speaking to you now from here.
Okay, here is an adverb. Okay, here, there, you are there. So there is an adverb. Okay, then we have adverbs of manner.
They answer the question how. They can be placed before the adjective, the adverb, or the verb, they modify, or right
after the clause, okay, that they modify. So we can say, he runs quickly. So quickly is the adverb in this case. The
adverb of degree. And these modify also the adverbs generally. So they are placed before them. Okay, so he speaks
English very quickly. Okay, so very is the adverb of degree. Okay, so now let's recap. I said that adverbs modify adverbs,
adjectives, or verbs. You have to pay close attention to where they are placed. There can be adverbs of time, adverbs of
place, adverbs of manner, adverbs of degree. Okay, and they usually end with ly. Okay, but not always. There are a lot of
exceptions like fast, well, hard, etc. If you have any questions, please post them under this video. I hope you have a great
day, and I see you next time. Take care. Bye bye.
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