[Voiceover] Hello grammarians. Today we are going to talk, skillfully and patiently, about adverbs.발음듣기
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And what it is that adverbs do.발음듣기
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And in order to do that, I think it might be useful to talk about what adjectives do first.발음듣기
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So adjectives can modify stuff.발음듣기
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And I should have been clearer in the last video, and said that the stuff they modify is nouns.발음듣기
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But, I didn't wanna introduce too many rules and strictures.발음듣기
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What adjectives modify is nouns, and only nouns.발음듣기
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Adverbs modify everything else.발음듣기
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So adverbs modify everything that's not a noun.발음듣기
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And the way we usually see this applied, is with verbs, and it's right there in the name too.발음듣기
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And this comes from the Latin meaning on or to verbs, action words.발음듣기
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Adverbs are words that you slap on to verbs, basically.발음듣기
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What I imagine when I think of adverbs, is I kind of see like a sticker.발음듣기
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Here's the sticker we've got we can say "slowly".발음듣기
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So we can take this thing and turn it into a sticker.발음듣기
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Move it around, do what we like.발음듣기
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So, we can right a sentence like Greyson ran slowly.발음듣기
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And slowly here, refers back to ran.발음듣기
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It's not really describing Greyson.발음듣기
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It's modifying or describing the action of running.발음듣기
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Pearl arranged the furniture slowly.발음듣기
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Little sticker that we just, poof, put on there.발음듣기
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But a word is also considered an adverb, if it modifies an adjective.발음듣기
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So let's say adverbs modify verbs and adjectives.발음듣기
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So we could say something like, "Vanessa was very hungry".발음듣기
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Right, because hungry is an adjective, and very, is doing this thing, where it's modifying hungry.발음듣기
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It's not Vanessa wasn't very.발음듣기
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You can't be very; very is not an adjective.발음듣기
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But it is a modifier, and the word that it's modifying, is hungry.발음듣기
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How hungry was Vanessa?발음듣기
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Vanessa was very hungry.발음듣기
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Vanessa could also be, slightly hungry.발음듣기
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And this leads me to one of the most important things about adverbs.발음듣기
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Which is that generally, they tend to have 'ly' on them.발음듣기
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So generally the way to make an adverb, is to just take an adjective, and add 'ly' to it.발음듣기
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So you take the word slow, you add ly you get the adverb slowly.발음듣기
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You take the word nice, you add 'ly', you get the adverb nicely.발음듣기
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If you take the adjective cheerful, add an ly, you get the adverb cheerfully.발음듣기
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So adverbs modify everything that isn't a noun.발음듣기
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And that means that they modify verbs, and adjectives.발음듣기
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The way you make an adverb most of the time, is by taking an adjective and tacking on 'ly' to the end of it.발음듣기
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It's like a sticker, that you, poof, put on top of a verb or an adjective.발음듣기
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That's what adverbs are, and that's what they do.발음듣기
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And what you can do, is learn anything. David out.발음듣기
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