Adverb Notes

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Adverb Notes
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Definition

• An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an
  adjective, or another adverb

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Adverbs answer the following questions

• Where? How often? or how long?
• When? To What extent?
• How? or how much?

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Examples

• The sprinter ran swiftly. The adverb swiftly
  modifies the verb ran and hells how.
• I read the funny pages early on Sunday morning.
  The adverb early modifies the adjective small
  and tells to what extent.

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Examples

• 3. Jolene was comforting a very small child. The
  adverb very modifies the adjective small and
  tells to what extent.
• 4. The fire blazed too wildly for anyone to
  enter. The adverb too modifies the adverb wildly
  and tells to what extent. The adverb wildly
  modifies the verb modifies the verb blazed and
  tells how.

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Examples

• 5. Dad will sometimes quote from Archbishop
  Desmond Tutus speech. The adverb sometimes
  modifies the verb will quote and tells how
  often.
• 6. Put the apples there, and we will eat them
  later. The adverb there modifies the verb put
  and tells where. The adverb later modifies the
  verb will eat and tells when.

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Words Often Used as Adverbs
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Where?

• Away
• Here
• Inside
• There
• Up

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When?

• Later
• Now
• Soon
• Then
• Tomorrow

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How?

• Clearly
• Easily
• Quietly
• Slowly

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How often? or how long?

• Always
• Usually
• Continuously
• Never
• Forever
• Briefly

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To what extent? or How much?

• Almost
• So
• Too
• More
• Least
• Extremely
• Quite
• Very
• Not

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Take Note

• The word not is nearly always used as an adverb
  modifying a verb. When not is part of a
  contraction, as in hadnt, arent, and didnt,
  the nt is still an adverb and is not part of
  the verb.