Is craftily a verb

Answer 1

No, 'craftily' isn't a verb. Verbs tell you what something is doing, like 'run', 'eat' and 'talk'. 'Craftily' is an adverb. An adverb is used together with a verb and it tells you *how* something is doing what it's doing. For example:

'He runs fast.' ('fast' is the adverb there.)
'I eat slowly. ' ('slowly' is the adverb.)


Or:


'Tom craftily tricked his friends into painting his Aunt Polly's fence for him.'
('craftily' is the adverb, it tells you what Tom's tricking was like.)


Adverbs are usually, but not always, made by adding -ly (or -ily) to the end of an adjective. For example:


slow - slowly
quiet - quietly
noisy - noisily