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Week Nine Language Arts Warm Ups

Adverbs

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1. What three parts of speech can an adverb modify?

Answer: verbs, adverbs, and other adverbs

2.With what two letters do adverbs frequently end?

Answer: -ly.

3. Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Neither Jan nor Dean drove very fast.

Answer: very

4. Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
Our class is not especially busy right now. .

Answer: not, especially

5. Identify the adverb(s) in the following sentence:
How did you do on that rather long test?

Answer: how, rather

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