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Identify Adverbs in a Sentence

In this worksheet, students will practise identifying adverbs in sentences.

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Which word is a verb in the sentence below?

 

Bertie walked to the park.

 

boy walking with his dog

 

A verb is a doing word so walked is the verb in this sentence.

 

How might Bertie be walking to the park?

 

You may have come up with words like:

Quickly

Slowly

Happily

 

These are all adverbs.

 

Bertie quickly walked to the park.

Bertie walked slowly to the park.

Bertie walked to the park happily.

 

All of these adverbs tell us how something is done so we call them adverbs of manner.

Lots of adverbs of manner end in -ly.

 

Can you see how the adverb can come before or after the verb in our sentences?

 

Now, imagine someone singing.

 

boy singing

 

How might they be singing?

 

Can you come up with some adverbs of manner to describe their singing.

 

How about:

Cheerfully

Awfully

Loudly

 

Sophie cheerfully sang in her bedroom.

 

microphone

 

Here, the adverb has been put before the verb 'sang'.

 

Let's have a go at some questions on this now.

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