Predicate ADVERB?

Question

can anybody get me a site with the defintion, a few examples, and a few try it now questions (with the answers) for predicate adverbs?

no NOT predicate ADJECTIVE, TRY TO GET ME predicate ADVERB!!

Answer 1

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It is a little ambiguous as to why you are asking; the purpose of why you ask would greatly cutdown on the aolution. Given that, i will assume you just want the simple form and not the "categorical" explanation (but if you are see below).

Of course you know you need a subject and a verb to make a sentence. Those things which point to (or describe) the verbs are adverbs and those which point to (or describe, actually termed "modify") the noun(s) are adjectives. There are some 'tricky' spots, but this is generally the rule.

Also in a sentence you have a subject (main actor/action) and a predicate (2ndary subject/action). Those things which describe your predicate's nouncs are "predicate adjectives" and those which "modify" the verbs are "predicate adverbs". Adverbs, as you may remember, usually end in "ly" but not always...it is better to look for that which modifies your verbs! This is it in a nutshell...

Example: John was extremely hungry and so he ate all of the delicious pie.

John [subject/noun] was [verb] extremely [adverb] hungry [adjective] so [conjunction] he [pronoun] ravenously [predicate adverb] ate [predicate verb] all [adjective] of [preposition/adposition] the [article] delicious [predicate adjective] pie [predicate noun].

Now, i want you to know that I am not an English teacher or even a major...i did teach a language course in Greek and did very well in English...but i am not guaranteeing my comments as 100% factual...these notes are merely my understandings of them...you'd need to do further research...or you could always "google" your questions or ask jeeves (ask.com)...

i hope you do well and get straight "A's!"

Source(s):

Categorically speaking: http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:2MPx…

Try this site for a "This phrase functions as..." quiz to help you with the basics: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hype…