Adverb | Tarun Grover

Adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective and an adverb.

EX:
She is walking slowly.
She is very beautiful.
She is walking very slowly.

Kinds of adverbs :
1. Adverb of time - today, tomorrow, yesterday, the day before yesterday etc.
2. Adverb of place - here, there, everywhere, nowhere etc.
3. Adverb of frequency - always, seldom, never, hardly, frequently etc.
4. Adverb of degree - too, very, much, quite etc.
5. Adverb of manner - Ly - Beautifully, Bravely, Honestly.

Note - Adverb of manner shows how the action is done.

EX:
She sings beautifully.
They fought bravely.
Formation of Adverb of manner
Adiective+ ly =Adverb

Wise+ ly =wisely
Beautiful + ly = beautifully
Honest + ly honestly
Caretul+ ly = carefully
Noun+ ly =Adjective
Friend+ ly = friendly
Brother+ ly = brotherly
Man + ly =manly

Bodily
Bravely
Ghostly
Finally
Homely
Worldly
Highly
Extraordinarily
Nicely
Godly
Sincerely
Fatherly
Goly
Talkly
Test yourself -

All of them work (a)/ very carefully right from (b)/ the beginning till they finish
(c)/ No error.

More than half the food products (a)/ targeted at babies and toddlers have
(b) / a high sugar content and are (c) / excessive sweet. (d)/ No Error.

We could not see (a)/ the places clear (b) / as the train was (c)/ moving very fast.
(d)/ No error.

She was so (a) / emotional stable that (b)/ she was not moved (c) / by their
decision to suspend her. (d)/ No error.

1. She is too beautiful.

2. You are too good.
3. This team is too weak.
4. She is too beautiful to be rejected by any young man.
5. She is much more beautiful than I.
6. She is much the most beautiful girl in the class.

Too/Very

Too more than required -

Good quality X
Bad quality ✓
too happy
too dull
too healthy
too difficult
too glad
too careless
too strong
too weak

Note - too...... to +v1 too.....to +be + v3

In this structure we can use both "good" and "bad" qualities with "too"
1. The old man is too weak to walk.
2. She is too short to reach the shelf.
3. It's too hard to finish the project by Friday.
4. This news is too good to be true.
5. She is too beautiful to be rejected by any young man.

Very - (in a great degree)

Good quality
Bad quality✓
very good
very active
very bad
very dull
very easy
Note -Too........ To + v * 1 / t * o + be +v3
So... that

She is too beautiful to be rejected by any young man.

= She is so beautiful that she cannot be rejected by any young man

The old man is too weak to walk.

=The old man is so weak that he cannot walk.

Very/Much
Both are same in meaning

Very (positive degree adj.)

Much (comparative degree adj.)

Very good
Very wise
Very beautiful

much better
much wiser
much more beautiful
Very
(The + very + sup. Degree)

The very best

The very wisest

=Much
(much + the + sup. Degree)

much the best

much the wisest

Q. The very most beautiful

much the most beautiful

Test yourself -
It was much difficult to come out (a)/ because the stadium was full of viewers
(b)/ altogether (c)/ No error.

The much wisest (a) / person of this department is (b) / Mr. Mehta (c) / No
error.

It is not that easy (a) / to acquire too high a (b) / position that (c) / many can just
aspire for (d)/ No error.

The time given to me (a) / was too little that it (b)/ was not possible for me (c)/
to finish the task in time (d) / N error.
Only too/none too

none too = not very

Only too = very

Only too happy

Only too unhappy
Only too beautiful
none too good
none too bad
none too pleasant

Test yourself -
His proposal was (a) / only too good, however (b)/ it succeeded in evoking (c)/
interest in the panel member (d)/ No error.

He ran so fastly (a)/ that he reached (b) / the destination in (c) / just two
minutes. (d) / No error.

Fast/Fastly
Adjective
Adverb

A fast ball
A fast train
Bolt runs fast.
The train is running fast.
Test yourself -

My last journey was (a) / none too pleasant and I enjoyed (b) / the alluring
sights of flora and fauna (c)/ through the tinsel window pan (d)/ No error.

He ran so fastly (a) / that he reached (b) / the destination in (c) / just two
minutes. (d)/ No error.

Q. He will go to Shimla on Next Friday.

A. He will go to Shimla on Friday next.

Adverbs and some prepositions

On +Monday/Tuesday+next/last
lm +next/last+week/month/year

Test yourself -
She completed her graduation in last year

Double Negative
we cannot use "not" with these words.

Deny
Prevent
Prohibit
Forbid
Hardly
Rarely
Scarcely
Unless
Until
Both
Lest

Test yourself -

Unless you do not study diligently, you'll never understand trigonometry.

Until she does not accept my apology, I will not leave.

Both of the girls have not brought the flowers.

If your hands are dirty, don't touch your new dress, lest you would not spoil it.

He noted that long-distance firms are still prohibited from not accessing certain
local phone services, such as high-volume calling plans.

Our director would not have signed the contract unless she had not had a
lawyer present.

The woodman stirred the fire until the flames did not leap high and the sparks
flew out of the roof hole.

I make it a rule to read the newspaper every day lest I may not fall behind the
times.
Hardly, Rarely, Scarcely, Always, Seldom, Never, Certainly, Occasionally,
Frequently, Generally, Often etc.

Note - All these words are used between helping verb and main verb or before
main verb.

I will miss you certainly. x

I will certainly miss you.

She goes to college hardly. x

She hardly goes to college.

Inversion - boxed (Adv +H. V + Sub +M.V.)

I have never gone there.

Never have I gone there.

She has seldom eaten chicken.

Seldom has she eaten chicken.

Test yourself -
She hardly goes to college.
They rarely talk to each other.

can be used with Inversion: Hardly, Rarely, Scarcely ......... when/before

EX: He had hardly opened the door than the two strangers entered the house.
When:
We had scarcely reached home then it started raining.

2. No sooner than
No sooner she finished cooking when some guest arrived.
She performed so well that everybody got impressed.

Test yourself –
No sooner the advertisement appeared in the newspaper there was a rush on the
booking window.

Hardly had I (a) / entered the airport (b)/ than I met (c) / my cousin Rahul.. (d)/
No error.

Rarely I have a chance to read fiction.

No sooner did the watchman saw the Chairman than he started saluting.