Adverbs - regular

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Adverbs are words that give extra information about the action of a verb.

In English many adverbs end in –LY. In Spanish they follow a similar pattern and many end in –MENTE.

They are easy to form:

1. Take an adjective eg ‘lento’

2. Change it to the feminine singular form (o > a) eg ‘lenta’

3. Add on –mente eg lentamente

(Note that if the adjective does not have a feminine form then just add –mente to the singular form)

When you have two adverbs together both ending in –mente, the –mente is often missed off the first one.