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Tells How, Where, When, or The Degree at Which Something Was Done

An adverb is a morphological part that provides additional information about a verb, adjective, or other adverb. There are several types of adverbs including time, place, manner, quantity, and frequency. Adverbs end in -ly and modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs by describing how, when, where, or to what extent. They are distinguished from adjectives based on whether they modify nouns or verbs. Some adverbs also take degrees of comparison like adjectives to indicate more, most, less, or least.

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Tells How, Where, When, or The Degree at Which Something Was Done

An adverb is a morphological part that provides additional information about a verb, adjective, or other adverb. There are several types of adverbs including time, place, manner, quantity, and frequency. Adverbs end in -ly and modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs by describing how, when, where, or to what extent. They are distinguished from adjectives based on whether they modify nouns or verbs. Some adverbs also take degrees of comparison like adjectives to indicate more, most, less, or least.

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THE ADVERB

Definition: An adverb is the morphological part that tells how, where, when, or the degree at
which something was done.
Types of the adverbs:
1. Adverb of time – Q: When?
- used at the beginning or at the end of a sentence.
e.g.: afterwards, already, always, immediately, last month, now, soon, then, yesterday etc.
Last week, we were stuck in the lift for an hour.
2. Adverb of place – Q: Where?
- used after the verb, object or at the end of a sentence.
E.g.: above, below, here, outside, over there, there, under, upstairs.
We can stop here for lunch.
3. Adverb of manner – Q: How?
- They end in –ly such as: badly, happily, sadly, slowly, quickly etc.
e.g.: well, hard, fast etc.
The brothers were badly injured in the fight.
They had to act fast to save the others floating in the water.
4. Adverb of quantity – Q: How much?
e.g.: almost, much, nearly, quite, really, so, too, very etc.
It was too dark for us to find our way out of the cave.
5. Adverb of frequency – Q: How often?
e.g.: again, always, ever, frequently, generally, hardly ever, nearly always, never,
occasionally, often, rarely, seldom, sometimes, twice, usually, weekly etc.
While overseas, he frequently phoned home.
Adverb versus adjective:
- words of the same form like: fast; hard; close; early; daily; fair; far; free; high; late;
likely; long; low; right; wide; wrong etc.
The fast car is expensive. – characterizes the noun car so fast is an adjective.
He drives fast. – characterizes the verb drives so fast is an adverb.
- words of different forms: careful - > carefully
adjective adjective + -ly (suffix)
She is a careful person. – characterizes the noun person so careful is an adjective
She looks after her brother carefully. – characterizes the verb looks after so carefully is
an adverb.
Degrees of comparison:
- they are the same like adjectives and generally considered for some adverbs of: manner;
quantity; frequency.

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