English (Compulsory) Class 10 Chapter 15: Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
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Chapter summary
An adverb tells us more about a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or a whole sentence. It answers: how? when?
Topics in this chapter
- Adverbs of manner, time, place, frequency, degree, reason, interrogative, relative
- Forming adverbs (-ly, adjective/adverb same form, e.g. fast, hard, late)
- Degrees and position of adverbs
- Adverbial phrases and rewriting a phrase as one adverb (in a loud voice = loudly)
- Adverb or adjective? (good/well, hard/hardly, late/lately)
- Mixed topics
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- Modify the sentence and rewrite it with the appropriate adverb form of the underlined part: He spoke in a very gentle tone. (1 marks)
- Modify the sentence and rewrite it with the appropriate adverb form of the underlined part: The driver stopped the car in a sudden way. (1 marks)
- Name the type of each underlined adverb: "She often walks slowly." (2 marks)
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