1. Adverb Notes

2. Definition
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb

3. Adverbs answer the following questions:
Where? How often? or how long?
When? To What extent?
How? or how much?

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

5. 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.]

6. Examples
5. Dad will sometimes quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 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.]

7. Words Often Used as Adverbs

8. Where?
Away
Here
Inside
There Up

9. When?
Later
Now
Soon
Then
Tomorrow

10. How?
Clearly
Easily
Quietly
Slowly

11. How often or how long? Always Usually Continuously Never Forever
Briefly

12. To what extent or how much?
Almost So
Too
More
Least
Extremely
Quite
Very
Not