What is Adverb?

 5. ADVERB

     The word Adverb come form the Middle English adverbe and from Latin adverbium.

An Adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An Adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

Examples

 Manner quickly-I do my work quickly.

Place: there-We are going there to attend the funeral. tomorrow-I will visit him tomorrow.

 Time: Many Adverbs end with the suffix "Iv'.

Most of these are created by adding "ly" to the end of an adjective. Such as:

 Adjective hard Adverb hardly

Adjective hopeful Adverb hopefully

Adjective aggressive

Adverb aggressively

 However, this is not a reliable way to find out whether a word is an adverb or not, for two reasons: Many Adverbs do not end in "-ly", and many words which are not Adverbs do end in "-ly" such as kindly, friendly, clderly and lonely, which are adjectives. Here are some examples of Adverbs which are the same as adjectives:

Adjective fast. Adverb fast

Adjective late. Adverb late

Adjective early Adverb early

Most of them must be identified by untangling the grammatical relationships within the sentence or clause as a whole. Unlike an adjective, an Adverb can be found in varios places within the sentence. In the following examples, each of the itilicized words is an adverb:

• The woodcutter quickly cut the tree down.

In this sentence, the adverb quickly modifies the verb cut and indicates in what manner (or how fast) the tree was cut.

• The loudly spoken sentences would be heard easily.

 In this sentence the adverb loudly modifies the adjective spoken.

• They forced him to kill the number more maliciously.

Here the adverb more modifies the adverb maliciously.

• Unfortunately, the office closed at three today.

In this example, the adverb unfortunately modifies the entire sentence.