3.1 Finally, Paco visits the adverb shop
Reflexiona
HOW IMPORTANT ARE ADVERBS IN THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?
Evidently, adverbs are very important because they modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs and add specific information about those parts of speech.
Importante
In order to understand better how important adverbs are, have a look at the following presentation. It points out the difference between adverbs and adjectives, and it also reminds you how to add -ly to adjectives to form adverbs. Have a look here.
Some adverbs are false friends. Let's take actually and eventually. We tend to think they mean actualmente and eventualmente. However, they exactly mean en realidad and finalmente, respectively. Moreover, in English, the adverb dramatically also means exaggeratedly (radicalmente, de manera espectacular), while the Spanish word dramáticamente does not have this meaning.
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Para saber más
- Click here to review and read other notes on adverbs.
- If you want to practice where adverbs are placed in sentences, click here.
- Here you are another useful exercise to improve your knowledge on adverbs and adjectives.
- Finally, if you want to learn more adverbs, here you can find a good list.
Comprueba lo aprendido
Read the sentences and complete the blanks with the correct adverb from the adjectives.
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Read the first passage of the topic where we are provided information about Paco. Write a similar passage about yourself and then read it aloud. Pay attention to word order, tenses and don't forget to use adverbs to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, clauses or whole sentences (try to join some of the sentences by means of connecting adverbs).
Apart from his family, Paco has got a lot of friends. They like football and they usually play it at weekends but they don't like doing the lottery every week, so Paco always does it on his own. Fortunately, Paco doesn't have to share the lottery prize with anybody else. He doesn't really know what to do with this huge amount of money. He knows well his own likes, hobbies and interests and, above all, he is completely sure that he wants to make a tour round the world: he really loves travelling. Paco enjoys going to the cinema with his friends. Action and mystery movies are his favourite ones. He also likes playing tennis and basketball at weekends. But his most enjoyable hobby is fishing. Paco is very good at it. He loves going fishing with his father. Both of them always do catch and release fishing, that is to say, they don't take the fish home, they return the fish to the water. That is why he doesn't like hunting at all, because you kill animals. Now Paco has the opportunity to buy a great fishing rod for his father. In fact, Paco can give him a motorboat. The whole family can go fishing on any reservoir around Granada with it. |
This is the end of topic 2 in which we have mainly been working on the Present Simple Tense, Adverbs of frequency, other adverbial phrases to express how often actions occur, and the formation of adverbs. In topic 3 we'll see the form and use of another important tense in English: the present continuous. Let's study it!