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Learning Targets
• Expand sentences with adverbs and adverb phrases to provide details about time and manner. • Analyze how an author’s language choices produce a specific effect.
• Write a short explanatory text collaboratively with peers. Using Adverbs
Adverbs are words that add detail to, or modify, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They are often used to give details about the time and manner of actions in a story. Adverbs of time tell when, how long, and how often something happens. Adverbs of manner describe how something happens. The author of “The Scholarship Jacket” uses adverbs and adverb phrases to add details about when her story takes place and how the characters act and feel.
Language Resource: Adverbs and Adverb Phrases
Adverbs of Time
Adverbs of Manner
always
hastily
finally
nervously
never
silently
soon
suddenly
for hours
very straight
Skim through “The Scholarship Jacket,” looking for sentences that contain adverbs and/or adverb phrases, especially those that provide details about time and manner. Write examples in the chart below. For each sentence, circle the adverb and underline the word that it modifies. Then write whether the author is providing a detail about time or manner.
Example Sentence from Story
Time or Manner?
My oldest sister Rosie had won the jacket a few years back and I fully expected to [win] also.
Manner
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