Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 36–37 · Part 1: Part I: The elementary course
36. The adverb and the adverbial element
Goal: Your child can find adverbs and say what each one modifies.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 36 is an oral lesson on "Birds sing sweetly" and defines the adverb. Lesson 37 defines the adverbial element, gives a model, ten sentences, and sentences to write.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask your child to fix "Me and him went home."
How do they sing?
SayBirds sing sweetly.
Ask: Does "sweetly" tell what the birds sing? No, it tells how. Then: Very large vessels were seen. What does "very" tell about?
Read:
An Adverb is a word used to modify a verb, adjective, participle, or adverb.
The adverbial element
Read:
An Adverbial Element is a word, or group of words, used to modify a verb, an adjective, a participle, or an adverb.
The model is "The wind blew furiously." Furiously modifies the verb blew.
Oral practice
Act out a verb in different ways: walk slowly, quickly, sadly, proudly. Your child names the adverb each time.
Find the adverbs
Point out the adverbs and what each modifies:
That vessel sails slowly.
Those mountains are very high.
You will never see him again.
Write sentences
Write sentences like the book's models:
We should walk quietly.
He walks quite slowly.
The book asks for seven of each kind; do three today.
Use it today
Find three adverbs in today's reading. Many end in ly, but not all.
Answers to the book's problems
slowly (sails); there (built); quite (late); very (high); agreeably (surprised); shortly (will return); never, again (will see); gladly (would pardon); So (thought); afterwards (escaped).
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