Adverbs and Prepositions

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• Adverbs and Prepositions

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Points to Note
What are adverbs? Adverbs are the words that tell
you how an action is done. e.g. happily, softly,
quietly. The children are playing happily. The
soldier marched smartly.
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Points to Note

• Prepositions usually occur
• before a noun
• before a noun phrase (e.g. at the canteen).

They show the position, time, place or direction.
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Points to Note
For examples
We went to school at seven oclock.
It shows the time. (when?)
Mary met her mother at MTR station.
It shows the place. (where?)
The mouse ran from the cat.
It shows the direction. (where?)
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Points to Note
Tom came home from work at six oclock.
It shows the direction. (where?), and the time
(when?)
May was cooking in the kitchen.
It shows the place. (where?)
My father went to work in the morning.
It shows the time. (when?)
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What did the elephants do?
The elephants played.
play
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Where did the elephants play?
The elephants played
in the water.
water
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How did the elephants play?
The elephants played
in the water
happily.
happily
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What did the elephants do?
The elephants ran.
run
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Who did the elephants run from?
The elephants ran
from the hunter.
hunter
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How did the elephants run?
The elephants ran fearfully
from the hunter.
fearfully
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What does the parrot do?
The parrot talks.
talk
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Where does the parrot talk?
The parrot talks
in the tree.
tree
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How does the parrot talk?
loudly
The parrot talks
in the tree.
Hunters! Hunters!
loudly
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What are the children doing?
The children are singing.
sing
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Where are the children singing?
The children are singing
at the party.
party
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How are the children singing?
happily
The children are singing
at the party.
happily
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The clever child answered _________in the lesson
correctly
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The elephants stomped ________ in the mud pool.
playfully
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The mad woman shouted ________ at everybody
walking near her.
angrily
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The baby slept _______ on the sofa.
soundly
ZZZZZZZZZ!
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What are you doing?
Where are you doing?
How are you doing?
Think and share with your class.