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Adverbs
Includes questions related to the comprehension, usage and identification of the parts of speech that modify a verb, adverb or adjective such as quickly or very.
6,107 Questions
A large number are formed by adding -LY to the adjective form:
bare - barely
odd - oddly
weird - weirdly
pitiful - pitifully
or replacing E with Y :
simple - simply
able - ably
or changing Y to I and adding LY:
happy - happily
hasty - hastily
No. Arrested is a verb form that can be used an an adjective.
There is an adverb form "arrestingly" that is used to mean "startlingly."
"Still" can be an adverb of time, meaning continuing from an unspecified point in the past to the present, as in, "The patient is still alive." This adverb "still" modifies the adjective "alive". "Still" can also modify verbs, particularly progressive ones, and in, "That loudmouth is still talking."
No. Words like happily or sadly or quickly are adverbs. Adverbs help to describe verbs.
Is creepy an adverb or adjective?
It is an adjective, I can prove it say the creepy man stood there, now say the man creepy stood there. So the first sentence is right which means it is an adjective.
There is no direct adverb for the verb draw or the adjective drawn. It could be used in a prepositional phrase meaning done by drawing or sketching (e.g. illustrated by hand).
Yes it is.
Practically any word ending in "-ly" is an adverb.
I barely finished the race
barely= adverb
finished= verb
Is very a verb adjective or adverb?
The word very is usually an adverb. In some rare uses it is an adjective (e.g. the very thought of leaving, the very end). But it is never a verb.
Is the word hurriedly considered an adverb?
Yes. Hurriedly is an adverb. It means done in a hurry, with haste.
Is pretty good an adjective or adverb?
The word good is an adjective. The word pretty (meaning fairly) is colloquially an adverb here, modifying good, although it is typically an adjective. Together they will modify a noun.
What is the adverb of benefits?
The adverb of benefit is beneficially. The adjective is beneficial and the noun is beneficialness. Benefits is noun and has no adverb.
The only common adverb for the verb laugh is "laughingly."
There is a related adjective, laughable, which has the adverb form laughably.
Examples of adverbs of manner: anxiously, boldly, carefully, eagerly, fast, gladly, hurriedly, innocently.
Examples of adverbs of place: about, behind, far, here, inside, near, on, over, towards, under, up.
Examples of adverbs of time: now, then, today, tomorrow, hourly, monthly, first, constantly, frequently.
Examples of adverbs of degree: almost, barely, enough, entirely, hardly, indeed, less, nearly, rather, simply.
