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ADVERBS MODIFY: verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. MODIFY = MAKE MORE SPECIFIC Bola chewed the kola nut rhythmically TIME: (when/ how often/ how long) today yesterday daily briefly PLACE: (where/to where/from where) here there nearby backward forward MANNER: (how) Precisely effectively well smoothly happily DEGREE (how much/ how little) Greatly partly very really extremely too Bola buried the dead infants nearby She saw her son tonight. She thinks of him constantly. He was a homely man. (homely = adj.) Asi gazed at the lovely locket. (lovely =adj.) The child ate fast (fast = adv.) That is a fast horse. (fast = adj.) PREPOSITIONS SHOWS RELATIONSHIPS (over, above, under, beside, between, into, like, through, within, up, until…) Object of the preposition: noun or pronoun that follows the preposition. Among friends / for you / under the table. Prepositional phrase across the busy street beneath the luminous moon over that silly old doghouse Adjective phrase > modifies a noun … I can see houses with their dark windows. Adverb phrase > modifies verb Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles. |