One book is never enough to explore the incredibly wide range of adverbs! The goofy cats crazily deliver loads of additional examples to entertaningly illustrate the power of adverbs, including phrasal adverbs. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats magically turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adverb is cleverly color coded to help readers identify adverbs of manner, adverbs of time, and more. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense--and nonsense--of words.
In spite of the vast literature on modality in English, very little research has been done on modal adverbs as a group. While there are studies of individual adverbs, the semantic and pragmatic relations between them have been left largely unexplored. This book takes a close look at the whole field of modal certainty as expressed by adverbs in English. On the basis of corpus data the most frequent adverbs of certainty, including certainly, indeed, and no doubt, are examined from the point of view of their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics.
Offers students and teachers the opportunity to work on the main 'trouble spots' associated with adjectives, adverbs and pronouns at elementary and intermediate level. Contains teaching tips on how to present troublesome structures, classroom activities to practise structures in an active way, and varied practice exercises to check students' knowledge and understanding.
Note that not all adverbs of manner which answer the question "How…?" end in -ly. Most of them do, like this: - How did they sleep? ~ They slept peacefully - How well does she dance ~ She dances sublimely But common exceptions include: hard fast straight late - He worked hard in order to pass the exam - He was driving straight at me and I ran very fast to get out of his way. - There was a power failure earlier today and the trains are all running late - this and much more inside...
