10 year old boy doing Mad Libs: "Dad? Dad? What's an adverb? Dad? .... (5 mins later) Dad? Can you name an adverb for me?"
Dad, looking pained, finally paying attention: "Um... stinky. Like, you make something stinky."
Sure, kid, go ahead and put that in your Mad Lib.
Today I went to the zoo. I saw a purple (adjective) giraffe (noun) jumping up and down in its tree. It ran (verb: past tense) stinky (adverb) through the large tunnel that led to its comfortable (adjective) condominium (noun).The poor kid's mom finally took out her iPhone and looked it up, and told him, "like patiently, you know, all words ending in ly." Well, ya got the first part there, maam...
Yes, that was just lovely, wasn't it? I thought of being friendly and helping out the poor kid, you know, be neighborly, but I decided against it.
Sigh...
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Now I've got Schoolhouse Rock in my head:
An adverb is a word
That modifies a verb
Or modifies an adjective
Or else another adverb
So you can see that they're
Positively very very necessary
Lolly Lolly Lolly get your adverbs here....
How? Where? Or When?
Condition or Reason?
These questions are answered
When you use an adverb!
(Come and get it!)
"Stinky" doesn't fit this definition, so Schoolhouse Rock must be wrong.
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