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Watch out! Thundergoats are dropping in and making sentences with their magic hammers. Your task? Make the sentences more interesting using adverbs and adverbial phrases.
Adverbs are of different types. Among such are adverbs of manner (like smoothly, awkwardly and loudly) and those of time (today, yesterday and now). But there is a type not commonly taught: the one ...
Farmer Frank gets to grips with adverbs and adverbials. Suitable for teaching English Language at Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and the equivalent in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
In the examples above, the adjectives occur before the nouns they modify/qualify/describe (these are all interchangeable expressions); the adverbs occur after the verbs they modify.
Radzi and a group of children visit Manchester City Football Club to learn why grammar and punctuation are so important in sports journalism.
Guided Practice In each item below, the sentence contains a highlighted conjunction expressing a time relationship, followed by a conjunctive adverb in parentheses. In the blank box under each item, ...
How can you begin to improve upon the rough first draft of a letter or a report that obviously needs additional work? My August column offered one answer: review and apply four rhetorical forms that ...
Grammar expert and enthusiast June Casagrande dives into the world of hyphens and how to actually use them in writing.