Grammar and Language Workbook

Unit 6, Adverbs 133

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Grammar

Lesson 35

Adverbs Modifying Adjectives and Adverbs

An adverb can also modify an adjective or another adverb. An adverb that

modifies an adjective or another adverb tells how, when,or where about the word

it modifies. An adverb that modifies an adjective or another adverb almost always

appears immediately before the word it modifies.

Kai is an unusually good skater. (The adverb unusually tells how about the

adjective good.)

Marta almost always sings. (The adverb almost tells when about the adverb

always.)

ADVERBS OFTEN USED TO MODIFY ADJECTIVES AND OTHER ADVERBS

very too almost quite

so extremely really partly

rather nearly barely unusually

just somewhat totally hardly

Exercise 1 Circle each adverb that modifies an adjective or an adverb. In the blank,

write adj. if the adverb modifies an adjective. Write adv. if the adverb modifies another

adverb.

adj. I was barely awake when the phone rang.

adj. 1. A very nice bowl of flowers arrived in the mail.

adj. 2. We call my grandmother nearly every day.

adj. 3. Pierre is the most popular player on the team.

adv. 4. He almost always turns off the light.

adj. 5. The floor was marked with totally black lines.

adv. 6. We set the eggs on the counter very carefully.

adj. 7. The circus clown had an unusually big, false nose.

adv. 8. The elderly man walked rather slowly.

adj. 9. My shirt is old and somewhat gray.

adv. 10. My best friend, Tanya, sings quite sweetly.

adj. 11. Bill spends so much time working that he has little time for other things.