RIC-20234 Primary Grammar and Word Study Year 3 – Parts of Speech

Parts of speech
Adverbs
Focus
Common adverbs of place and interrogative adverbs
Definitions
• An adverb is a word that adds information, usually
to a verb and can tell how (manner), when or where
something happens.
Example:
Earlier (time), the ranger had sternly (manner)
warned the campers not to swim there (place).
• An interrogative adverb asks questions about how,
when, where or why something happens.
Note: Adverbs can modify any words that are
not nouns or pronouns. (These are modified by
adjectives.)
Explanation
• Adverbs can clarify meaning by telling more about
the action, allowing for greater precision and adding
interest to writing.
• On the worksheet, common adverbs have been
classified as those that add information about
manner, time or place, but there are other
categories such as: adverbs of frequency;
e.g. usually and seldom and adverbs of extent;
e.g. quite and almost. These other categories could
also be discussed with students.
• Although adverbs often answer the questions how,
when and where about the verb, the actual words
how, when, where and why are themselves
adverbs. They are known as interrogative adverbs.
Worksheet information
• Introduce the worksheet by discussing occasions
when students, family members or friends have
had to search for something, and ask students to
describe how the people involved were feeling and
behaving at the time. Did they try to blame each
other for whatever was missing?
• Remind students that identifying adverbs is made
easier by first finding the verbs.
• Read the text. The students should then locate and
circle all the verbs. (See pages 6–11 to revise verbs.)
• Model asking the ‘where’ question after each verb.
For example, ‘Does the text tell where the sneaker
has disappeared? (No) ‘Does the text tell where I’ve
searched?’ (Yes, so here is the adverb and should be
underlined.) Students should complete Question 1.
• Explain that if the answers for Question 2 are located
in the text, they should be used; but if not, students
will need to use their imagination and make up
some appropriate adverbs. For example, ‘How
would Mum have checked?’ (carefully? crossly?
impatiently?)
• Before students complete Question 4, they will
need to understand that all the words in the box are
adverbs. Some teachers may choose to introduce
the term interrogative adverb and to explain
that these question words are themselves special
adverbs. Encourage students to choose the adverbs
wisely as some words will fit in more than one space
and each word should only be used once.
Ideas for further practice
• Students work in small groups to highlight verbs on
a newspaper or magazine page then list any adverbs
used in the text to modify them.
Answers
1. The following adverbs of place should be
underlined: here, there, upstairs, down, inside,
outside, near, far, everywhere, off
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2. (a) Teacher check (b) Teacher check
(c) inside/outside
3. Answers should indicate that they searched
because they couldn’t find the sneaker.
4. (a) How, quickly (b) Where, everywhere
(c) When, today (d) Why
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