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Penggunaan Adverb dalam sebuah kalimat bahasa Inggris bermanfaat untuk menjelaskan atau memberikan tambahan informasi mengenai kata kerja (Verb), kata sifat (Adjective) maupun Adverb itu sendiri.

Baca Juga : Jenis-jenis Kata Sifat Adjective dalam Bahasa Inggris yang Wajib Diketahui

Dalam tulisan ini akan dipaparkan secara mendetail pengertian Adverb bahasa Inggris. Selain itu pembahasan juga mencakup fungsi Adverb serta contoh-contoh Adverb.

Pengertian dan Fungsi Adverb dalam Bahasa Inggris

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Dalam bahasa Indonesia, Adverb kita kenal dengan sebutan kata keterangan.

Indikator paling mudah untuk menandai sebuah Adverb adalah akhiran -ly pada sebuah Verb (kata kerja) maupun Adjective (kata sifat).

Lalu, apa sebenarnya yang dimaksud dengan Adverb?

Melansir dari Cambridge Dictionary, pengertian Adverb adalah one of the four major word classes, along with Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives.

Jika kita terjemahkan pengertian Adverb di atas secara harafiah bermakna sebuah kata yang bisa kita sandingkan dengan kata benda (Noun), kata kerja (Verb), dan kata sifat (Adjective).

Mengapa perlu menambahkan Adverb dalam sebuah kalimat bahasa Inggris? Ingat kembali bahwa salah satu fungsi dasar dari Adverb adalah untuk memperjelas kata di depannya maupun memperjelas Adverb itu sendiri.

Di awal pembahasan telah admin sampaikan bahwa indikator penanda sebuah kata keterangan atau Adverb adalah akhiran -ly pada sebuah kata.

Misalnya : clearly, quickly, locally, slowly, highly, dan sebagainya.

Fungsi Adverb pada Kalimat Bahasa Inggris 

Fungsi Adverb pada sebuah kalimat bahasa Inggris terbagi ke dalam beberapa kelompok utama. Masing-masing kelompok memiliki definisi kedudukan dan fungsi yang berbeda.

Berikut penjelasan selengkapnya.

1. Adverb of Time

Adverb of Time merupakan fungsi Adverb yang digunakan untuk memberikan informasi tambahan terkait waktu atau durasi waktu.

Dengan kata lain, Adverb of Time banyak digunakan untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang berawal dengan “When“.

Misalnya:

• I rarely go to the movie theater since the ticket price went up.
• I can finish all of my tasks and go home early.
• My brother will study after he finishes dinner.
• I visited grandpa recently because I wanted to give him my wedding invitation.
• Don’t worry, it all soon shall pass.

2. Adverb of Manner

Adverb of Manner merupakan fungsi Adverb bahasa Inggris yang berfungsi untuk membantu memberikan informasi terkait kondisi atau peristiwa yang terjadi.

Dengan kata lain, jenis Adverb ini bermanfaat untuk menjawab semua pertanyaan yang berawal dengan kata “How“.

Misalnya terdapat pada kalimat-kalimat di bawah ini.

• Anything you can do, I can do better.
• My sister and I are always late because she drives very slowly.
• She painted the whole scenery beautifully.
• I think I did the test well.
• She inadvertently lost the dog.

3. Adverb of Place

Sementara itu, Adverb of Place merupakan fungsi Adverb dalam bahasa Inggris yang dapat kita gunakan untuk membantu memberikan jawaban mengenai tempat.

Dengan kata lain, Adverb of Time berguna untuk menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang berawal dengan kata “When“.

Beberapa contoh Adverb of Time yang lazim terdapat dalam kalimat Bahasa Inggris misalnya: above, away, down, here, inside, near, outside, there, up, dan sebagainya.

Perhatikan contoh kalimat dengan Adverb of Time di bawah ini.

• Put that jar above the cupboard along with the other empty jars.
• I’m not allowed to play outside the house after 5 PM.
• Hurry up and get down here! I need your help!
• Her whole family moved to Bandung and they live there now.
• This experience gives literal meaning to going down below the rabbit hole.

4. Adverb of Degree

Fungsi Adverb of Degree digunakan untuk menjawab pertanyaan yang berawal dengan “how much“. Meskipun tidak semua pertanyaan “how much” mempertanyakan nominal.

Melainkan juga dapat kita gunakan untuk mempertanyakan seberapa sering suatu kejadian atau peristiwa.

Misalnya terdapat pada kalimat-kalimat di bawah ini.

• She looks extremely tired after cleaning the whole house.
• Mom told me she missed my brother too.
• We don’t have much money but it doesn’t stop us from being happy.
• Sometimes love just isn’t enough.
• The technician wiped the data in my hard drive entirely and it could not be restored.

6. Adverb of Frequency

Fungsi dan kedudukan Adverb of Frequency dalam kalimat bahasa Inggris adalah untuk menjawab seberapa sering frekuensi kegiatan seseorang.

Contoh kalimat :

• Dad usually doesn’t drink alcohol, but occasionally he dows.
• I rarely participate in family occasions because I don’t have any peers I can talk to.
• My parents frequently check up on their health at the hospital.
• She makes sure that I always finish my breakfast before I go to school.
• Sometimes I wish I had never been born.

Penjelasan lengkap tentang fungsi Adverb dapat Anda baca pada artikel Fungsi Adverb dalam Kalimat Bahasa Inggris yang Wajib Anda Ketahui

Jenis-jenis Adverb Bahasa Inggris yang Perlu Kita Ketahui

Pada bagian sebelumnya, telah dijelaskan tentang fungsi Adverb dalam kalimat bahasa Inggris. Nah, di bawah ini akan dijelaskan jenis-jenis Adverb bahasa Inggris yang perlu kita ketahui.

1. Interrogative Adverb

Sebenarnya, Adverb bukanlah kata penjelas dari sebuah Verb (kata kerja). Pemahaman ini tidak seluruhnya benar.

Karena Adverb itu sendiri dapat berbentuk kata tanya, misalnya how, when, why, dan where.

Perhatikan contoh kalimat dengan Interrogative Adverb di bawah ini.

• Why are you here?
• When is it going to stop?
• Where did the money come from?
• How long do we have to participate in this training?
• How much time do I have to set aside every week?

2. Conjunction Adverb

Jenis Adverb yang berupa Conjunctive Adverb berfungsi sebagai kata transisi penggabungan serta mengaitkan antar klausa independen.

Beberapa contoh jenis Adverb berupa Conjunction Adverb di antaranya: accordingly, also, alternatively, certainly, consequently, finally, nevertheless, moreover, previously, therefore, dan lain-lain.

Berikut contoh penggunaan Conjunction Adverb dalam kalimat Bahasa Inggris yang tepat.

• I can’ t leave the house today, therefore I delegate the meeting to the vice president.
• She certainly has what it takes to become an actress.
• According to the GPS, there’s busy traffice ahead of us. We can gamble and go ahead, or alternatively take a different route.

Pembahasan lengkap mengenai jenis-jenis Adverb bahasa Inggris dapat Anda baca pada artikel Jenis-jenis Adverb Bahasa Inggris dan Contoh Penggunaan dalam Kalimat yang Tepat

Latihan Soal Penggunaan Adverb dalam Kalimat

Silahkan uji pemahaman Anda terhadap materi pengertian Adverb dan penjelasan fungsi serta jenisnya dengan soal-soal di bawah ini.

Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.

Question Number 1 to 25

1. The child was playing………………………. (dangerous / dangerously) near to the edge of the swimming pool.
2. I was ………………………….. (scarce / scarcely) able to move my arm after the accident.
3. The snow fell ………………………….. (silent / silently).
4. Have I pronounced your name ………………………… (correct / correctly) ?
5. I am sorry, Madam, the restaurant is ………………………… (full / fully) booked.
6. The election campaign was not conducted very ……………………………. (clean / cleanly).
7. You must put matters ………………………….. (right / rightly) by telling the truth.
8. We thought the book had been very ………………………….. (good / well) researched.
9. In some cities you do not feel ………………………….. (safe / safely) going out alone at night.
10. The wolrd’s financial markets are ever more …………………………. (close / closely) linked.
11. Their house is ………………………….. (beautiful / beautifully) decorated.
12. The film has a ……………………….. (bored / boredly / boringly) predictable ending.
13. I think you should take it somewhere to have it mended ……………………… (proper / properly).
14. The accident was ………………………….. (clear / clearly) the lorry driver’s fault.
15. Divide the mixture …………………………. (even / evenly) between the baking pans.

16. These will be the first …………………………… (genuine / genuinely) free elections in the country.

17. The house was ………………………….. (safe / safely) locked up.
18. In the smaller villages, it is ………………………. (most / mostly) very quiet at night.
19. His clothes are all ……………………….. (neat / neatly) folded in their drawers.
20. He died …………………………… (peaceful / peacefully) in his sleep.
21. My piano playing has improved ……………………………. (significant / significantly) since I have had a new teacher.
22. He sleeps ………………………….. (light / lightly) and always hears the baby when she cries.
23. The traffic is moving very ………………………. (slow / slowly) ahead of us.
24. He had …………………………… (complete / completely) changed – I did notrecognize him.
25. …………………………… (interested / interestedly / interestingly) enough, he never actually said that he was innocent.

Question Number 26 to 50

26. You could ………………………… (hard / hardly) stand up because the wind was so strong.
27. She just …………………………. (sudden / suddenly) decided that she had had enough and she left him.
28. I have …………………………… (near / nearly) finished that book you lent me.
29. She stumbled …………………………. (sleepy / sleepily) into the bathroom.
30. He spoke ………………………….. (tiring / tired / tiredly) of his ordeal.
31. We really ought to leave ……………………… (immediate / immediately).
32. They quite ……………………….. (right / rightly) complained to the manager.
33. He ……………………… (cool / coolly) placed the money on the table and walked out.
34. The company’s financial situation is looking rather ……………………….. (bad / badly) at the moment.
35. They dealt with the problem ………………………… (quick / quickly / fast) and efficiently.
36. I love the smell of ………………………. (fresh / freshly) baked bread.
37. Do not fill your glass too …………………………. (full / fully) or you will only spill it.
38. The teacher explained the point as ………………………… (simple / simply) as she could.

39. He told them ………………………. (polite / politely) to leave him in peace.

40. None of the passangers had been ………………………….. (bad / badly) injured in the accident.
41. She was …………………………. (strange / strangely) calm – I found it quite disturbing.
42. I cannot ski ………………………… (awful / awfully) well.
43. Ever since the illness I get tired very ………………………… (easy / easily).
44. Our car has only ………………………….. (recent / recently) been repaired.
45. I cannot ……………………………. (honest / honestly) say what time I will be home.
46. Until recently the civil war had been ……………………….. (large / largely) ignored by the outside world.
47. All the information will be treated ………………………… (confidential / confidentially).
48. I was standing just ………………………. (near / nearly) enough to hear what they were saying.
49. She …………………………… (narrow / narrowly) missed winning an Oscar.
50. Please seal the envelope …………………………….. (firm / firmly) before posting it.

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