Lazily, Crazily, Just a Bit Nasally: More About Adverbs (Words Are Categorical)

by Brian P. Cleary illustrated by Brian Gable

One book is never enough to explore the incredibly wide range of adverbs! The goofy cats crazily deliver loads of additional examples to entertainingly illustrate the power of adverbs, including phrasal adverbs. Brian P. Cleary’s playful verse and Brian Gable’s comical cats magically turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adverb is cleverly color coded to help readers identify adverbs of manner, adverbs of time, and more. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense—and nonsense—of words. Ages 7-9

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The adverbs in this book are color coded. The colors of the words on this page match the colors of the adverbs in the text. You’ll see that all pink adverbs tell you when, all green adverbs tell you how often, and so on. Watch out for adverbs that tell you how. Some are light blue and others are dark blue.

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Adverbs sometimes tell

us wh ere,

like th e se ar e h er e and those ar e there.

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ll tell us w i w y e h t n h en Ofte ,

like this is

now and

th at

was th en. 5

Adverbs sometimes tell

us how,

“ Car efully remove this cow.” like,

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They let us know how often too, as

in the p hra se, “I

seld

om chew.”

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At times they modify the verb, as in , “H e

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sl o

wly

pain ts

” . b r th e cu

, y l i r e Ch e

sh

. d e b m o r f e s o r e

Eerily, he stared ahead.

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Lazily sleeping, nasally weeping, a dude eat ing food . s ’ e g r h u n i e l d p e e i e l y b h p b e e w

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d e t n i a Craz p e r s i ily, Curt . e the C g h ang br id

Adverbs add all kinds of life to our language! 11

They help give adjectives a boost, as in, “ This price is quite reduced!”

Very pretty,

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wryly f

u nny,

dismally dark, and blindingly

su n

ny.

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Sometimes “how much” is the question

they

answer,

y l l a t o t a s ’ e h S “ , n i s a 14

ter

” . r e c n a d e l r ib

y l l stubbor a i t r a n, P

barely polite,

h ardly been fed on this awfully cold nig ht.

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Adverbs are words l ike slyl

y and

d r y ly.

They help tell us more, as in, y l y h ” “H e s . d er e a ns w

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aringly, dash ingly, darkly, directly—

you guessed t h

ese

w er e

a d v er b s ?

Then you guessed correctly! 17

So are bl eakly,

blandly, weakly,

, y l l o co 18

newly, s

ome wh

at ch icly.

Terribly, t

h aunt

a u nt gly, in ing ly sp oke n,

fr a nt ically,

forcibly, physically br oken. 19

Sometimes adverbs come in phrases,

, e l i es. h w z

a a r m o e f s , e e th k

li

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t l i u b e sh

In

th e

meant ime,

he got lost.

Here and there, you’ll find some frost.

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But wh at about words l ike today and tomor r o w,

recently, soon, or tonight ? 22

If you said these ter ms are all adverbs of time,

ig h

t!

el l I’ll t

you

r i gh

t

now

r e r ’ u o y th at

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If we h ad no adverb s, th en we couldn’ t say this wa t a th s done ne atly

or swe e

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t ly.

We couldn’ t say l o o s e l y th er obtusely. a r or

We’d de scribe

th ings

a bit less completely. 25

We couldn’ t say Natalie, act ing quite brattily,

catt ily 26

called

me a name.

l dn’ t say u o c e W , ch a

tt ily,

, y l i t s a n

Natalie rottenly ruined our game.

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So write all th e adverbs you know on a page. Write sl p

op ily,

HUGELY ,

or 28

.

t inily

Boastfully, bl issfully, make out a l ist for me. You’ve learned wh at an adverb is—finally!

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h at is w , an a So

Do you kno w ?

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d v e r b?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN P. CLEARY is the author of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical™ series and the Math Is CATegorical™ series, as well as Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry, Rhyme & PUNishment: Adventures in Wordplay, Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book, and The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor. Mr. Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio. BRIAN GABLE is the illustrator of several Words Are CATegorical™ books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical™ series. Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children. Text copyright © 2008 by Brian P. Cleary Illustrations copyright © 2008 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Millbrook Press A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cleary, Brian P., 1959Lazily, crazily, just a bit nasally: more about adverbs / by Brian P. Cleary ; illustrations by Brian Gable. p. cm. — (Words are categorical) ISBN-13: 978–0–8225–7848–2 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 1. English language—Adverb—Juvenile literature. I. Gable, Brian, 1949- ill. II. Title. PE1325.C58 2008 428.2—dc22 2006033800 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 – JR – 13 12 11 10 09 08

eISBN-13: 978-0-7613-4050-8

Brian P. Cleary is the author of the best-selling Words Are CATegorical™ series and the Math Is CATegorical™ series, as well as Rainbow Soup: Adventures in Poetry, Rhyme & PUNishment: Adventures in Wordplay, Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book, and The Laugh Stand: Adventures in Humor. Mr. Cleary lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Brian Gable is the illustrator of several Words Are CATegoricalTM books, as well as the Math Is CATegorical™ series. Mr. Gable also works as a political cartoonist for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, Canada, where he lives with his children.

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