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00:00Parts of speech for kids. What is an adverb? By Teaching Without Frills.
00:08Parts of speech are different types of words we use when we speak and write.
00:14There are eight main parts of speech. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
00:27So, what's an adverb? An adverb is a word that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
00:37Adverbs often help answer the questions how, when, where, and to what extent.
00:44Let's look at some of the different types of adverbs and learn how we use them.
00:49Many adverbs describe verbs by telling how an action happens, like quickly running, peacefully sleeping, or talking loudly.
01:00Do you notice something about these three adverbs? Oh yeah, they all end in ly.
01:07Quick, peaceful, and loud are all adjectives that can describe nouns.
01:13But when we want to describe a verb, we often add an ly on the end to create an adverb.
01:20Can you think of some other adverbs that end in ly?
01:25Adverbs can also describe when or how often something happens.
01:31These are words like now, then, tomorrow, always, never, and sometimes.
01:38We can use these words to describe verbs or adjectives, like walking now, or always happy.
01:46Can you think of any other adverbs that describe when or how often something happens?
01:53Adverbs can also answer the question where.
01:57Words such as inside, outside, here, there, up, and down can be used as adverbs to tell where something happens,
02:05like look up, or come here.
02:09Can you think of any other adverbs that can describe where something happens?
02:15Finally, we can use adverbs to answer to what extent.
02:19These are adverbs like barely, almost, very, and extremely.
02:26These adverbs can describe verbs like almost crying, or they can modify adjectives like extremely hot.
02:35Or they can even describe other adverbs like very quickly.
02:40Can you think of some other adverbs that might answer the question to what extent?
02:45Now let's see if you can find the adverbs in the following sentence.
02:50Yesterday we very carefully planted pretty flowers outside.
02:56Here's a hint. There are four adverbs in this sentence.
03:00Pause here to think, or keep watching to hear the answer.
03:07Yesterday is an adverb that tells when we planted the flowers.
03:11Carefully describes how we planted the flowers.
03:15Very describes to what extent we were careful.
03:19And outside describes where we planted the flowers.
03:23The word pretty is not an adverb.
03:27It's an adjective because it describes a noun, flowers.
03:31So how can you use adverbs in your own writing?
03:35Listen to this boring sentence.
03:38The dog wagged his tail and jumped.
03:41How can you add some adverbs to this sentence to make it more detailed and interesting?
03:47Pause here to think, or keep watching for some ideas.
03:54There are many ways you could add adverbs to this sentence.
03:57You might say the dog happily wagged his tail and jumped up and down.
04:02Or maybe the dog always wagged his tail and jumped excitedly.
04:09So remember, adverbs are words we use to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
04:17They help answer questions like how, when, where, and to what extent.
04:23You can use adverbs to make sentences more detailed and interesting.