Adverbs

3.14 Adverbs

Adverbs

Words that modify a verb, an adjective, or another word to indicate the manner, time, place, cause, or degree an action is done and answer questions such as 'when', 'where', and 'how'.

Adverbs can be formed from adjectives by adding '-ly'.

There are three types of adverbs

(a)		Adverbs of manner
(b)		Adverbs of time
(c)		Adverbs of place

7.1

Adverbs of Manner

You use these adverbs to describe 'how' something happened.
These adverbs are formed by adding '-ly' to the end of an adjective.
If an adjective ends with '-y', change it to '-i' and add '-ly'.

adjective + ly	\(\rightarrow\)	adverb
quick	\(\rightarrow\)	quickly
happy	\(\rightarrow\)	happily

However, certain adverbs do not end in '-ly'. Some common ones are: fast, hard, far, well.

She ran fast.	/
She ran fastly.	x

Some words that end with '-ly' are NOT adverbs. For examples: friendly, lovely, lonely, silly. These words are adjectives.
Adverbs of manner can be used in many places in a sentence, but usually after a verb. Example: Alice walks gracefully on the stage. ('walk' is the verb)

7.2

Adverbs of Time

You use these adverbs to describe 'when' something happened.
They are not the same as adverbs of manner. They are not formed by adding '-ly' to an adjective.
Example:

(a) When did Mimi leave the house?

(b) She left the house just now.

More examples of commonly used adverbs of time:

already
at this moment
before
just
just now
last night/week/month/year
now
soon
still
then
this morning/ evening
today
tomorrow
tonight
yesterday
yet

7.3

Adverbs of Place

Adverbs of place tell us 'where' something happened.
These are usually placed after the verb.
Examples:

(a) The girls found the puppy here.

(b) There is rubbish everywhere.

More examples of commonly used adverbs of place:

(a) here

(b) there

(d) outside

(e) inside

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