How do you explain an adverb to a child?

Answer 1

You have to know what a clause is: it is a group of words with a subject (usually a noun or pronoun) and a predicate (a verb). A sentence can have one clause...

"We won the game."

or it can have more than one...

"We won the game because we trained harder."

There are two clauses, and the second one explains something about the first one -- the reason that they won. So "because we trained harder" is a clause that acts as an adverb here, telling why they won. It is an adverb clause.

Answer 2

An adverb is a word usually used to describe a doing word (verb). They often end in 'ly'.

For example:

If the sentence is 'He ran', you could add an adverb to say how he ran: He ran quickly, He ran slowly.

If the sentence is 'She jumped' and you say 'She jumped up' or 'She jumped down' or ' She jumped high', then the word up or down or high is being an adverb, telling how or where she jumped.

Other LY adverbs include:

The dog barked loudly.

The cat slept quietly.

We pour the milk carefully.

Answer 3

An adverb is a word that describes how an action is done. For example, in the sentence "The dog ran quickly," the word "quickly" is an adverb because it tells us how the dog ran. So, think of adverbs as words that help us understand more about the action in a sentence.

Answer 4

No, kids is a plural noun. The singular is kid -- All the kids like ice cream

Kid can also be a verb, it means to talk or deal jokingly with someone. -- She kids me about my acccent