Adverbs adalah kata yang ditambahkan setelah
kata lain (selain kata benda dan kata ganti), yang
berfungsi sebagai kata keterangan.
Macam macam adverbs adalah sebagai berikut.
1. Adverbs of time (kata keterangan waktu)
a.Definite time (waktu tertentu) today, tomorrow, yesterday, everyday,
tonight, last…(week, month, etc.), next…
(week, month, Sunday, etc.), in…(Febru-ary, the afternoon, etc.)
Contoh: She will come in January.
b. Indefinite time (tak tentu)
already, yet, recently, ever, never, before,
after, usually, often, sometimes, soon,
still.
Contoh: The train will arrive soon.
2. Adverbs of place (kata keterangan tempat) at…, on…, anywhere, here, there, inside, in front of, in back, behind, around, hereby, hereto.
Contoh: The girl isn’t here.
3. Adverbs of manner (kata keterangan cara)
quickly, rudely, kindly.
Contoh: He speaks rudely.
4. Adverbs of frequency (kata keterangan tempat )
always,often,usually,ever,seld
Contoh: She nevercomes late to school.
5. Adverbs of quantity (kata keterangan jumlah)
once,twice,…times(more than two),half.
Contoh: Dika goes to the library four times a week.
Catatan:
Adverbs of manner terbentuk dari adjectives + –ly(contoh: quick+ –ly = quickly).
Namun, ada pula adverb yang bentuknya sama dengan adjectives dan tidak boleh ditambah –ly setelah kata tersebut
(fast, hard, high, low, late, long, early)
Contoh: He can run fast.
Contoh:
Roni and Dini study at SMP 1. Their school has
a nice library. The library is not so big, but it has a lot of books, newspaper, and magazines. The books are arranged according to a system. How are the books arranged in the library? They are arranged ....
a. neatly
b. mathematically
c. orderly
d. systematically
Jawab: (d)
Jawaban dapat dilihat pada kalimat terakhir.”The
books are arranged according to a system” arti-nya “buku-buku disusun berdasarkan sistem”. Kata system dapat diubah menjadi kata keterangan menjadi systematically, artinya ‘secara siste-matis’.
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