An adverb cannot modify nouns or pronouns, as adjectives do. It may modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. Other parts of speech (conjunctions, prepositions) are never modified.
Adverb phrases modify the verb, adjective, or adverb of the sentence.
Adverb
It modifies a verb, adjective, or an adverb.
An adverb tells how much. The adverb tells how fast or how slow you ran.
Somewhat is an adverb. As an adverb of degree, it can modify verbs, adjectives, or adverbs.
Adverb phrases modify the verb, adjective, or adverb of the sentence.
An adverb can modify or describe a verb.
You could modify a phrasal verb (more than one word), or modify an entire clause with an adverb such as "fortunately."
No, it cannot. But an adverb can modify an adjective (e.g. almost bald) or another adverb (e.g. almost completely).
Nouns. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
noun, verb, or another adverb
Adverb
An adverb can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
An adverb can modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
No, an adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb only. Adjectives are the words that are used to describe pronouns.
An adverb modifies the meaning of a verb or another adverb. An example of modifying a verb is, "quickly jumped." Quickly modifies the verb, jumped. If you say, "very quickly jumped," you are using very to modify the adverb quickly.
An adverb, by definition, can modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.