WhatAreAdverbs

Adverb describes and gives us more information about the verb, an adjective or another adverb. They are answers on questions How? When? Where?.

1. Adverb describes verb:
   Anna reads well.

2. Adverb describes another adverb:
   Sandra reads extremly well.

3. Adverb describes adjective:
The most beautiful boy won the competition.

Most adverbs end on -ly and are formed by adding -ly to the adjectives:
brave - bravely
sad - sadly
faithful - faithfully
civil - civilly
wide - widely

Kinds of adverbs:
1. Adverbs of time: tell when an action took place (now, tomorrow, soon...)
2. Adverbs of place: tell where the action took place (here, there, above,...)
3. Adverbs of manner: tell how the action took place ( noisy, softly, well, ...)
4. Adverbs of degree: tell how much of something (almost, very, too, partly, ...)
5. Interrogative adverbs: these ask the questions suggesting time, place, reason,...
6. Numerical adverbs: tell how often (twice, three times,...)
7. Conjunctive adverbs: they join and modify (so, ...)

Comparison of adverbs:
Adverbs have three degrees of comparison:

Positive                                     Comparative                                Superlative
bravely                                       more bravely                                most bravely
happily                                       more happily                                 most happily

However, adverbs of one syllable form the degrees in the same way as adjectives:
near                                           nearer                                            nearest

1.To adjectives which ends in -l, we still add -ly to form adverbs:
real - really
cool - coolly
careful - carefully

2. If the adjective ends in -y, change the y to i and add -ly:
happy - happily
noisy - noisily
weary - wearily

3. If the adjective ends in -ue, drop the e before adding -ly:
due - duly
true truly

4. If the adjective ands in -ic, add -ally:
ironic - ironically
sarcastic - sarcastically
fantastic - fantastically