Grammar - Facts About Adverbs - Part One

Adverbs are the words that give us more information about verbs. The adverbs add information to the verb. An example of a verb is a doing word or a being word – feel, walk.

When you use adverbs in sentences it makes them much more interesting.

Every verb you use in a sentence can have an adverb added to it.

• The boy smiled nervously

• The girl grinned sheepishly

We usually use adverbs to describe how something happens:

• The couple walk (how?) quickly

We also use adverbs to describe when or where something happens:

• We met her (when?) yesterday

We use adverbs to describe how often something happens:

• He gets a taxi (how often?) daily

Adverbs are usually formed from adjectives. Adjectives are describing words that tell us more information about nouns. This is done by adding ‘ly’ at the end of the adjective.

• Slow – Slowly

Some words may change in spelling when they change to adverbs. If the adjective ends with the letter ‘y’, you will have to change that ‘y’ into an ‘I’ before you actually add the ‘ly’.

• Scary – Scarily

• Happy – Happily

• Heavy – Heavily

You can read the other articles in this series here:

Part Two

Part Three