What is an adverb?

Basically, most adverbs tell you how, where, or when something is done. In other words, they describe the manner, place, or time of an action. Here are some examples:

Type Manner Place Time

Adverb slowly here yesterday

Example Jane drives slowly.

The party is going to take place here.

I called him yesterday.

Many adverbs end with the suffix -LY. Most of these are created by adding -LY to the end of an adjective, like this:
Adjective slow delightful hopeless aggressive Adverb slowly delightfully hopelessly aggressively

However, this is NOT a reliable way to find out whether a word is an adverb or not, for two reasons: many adverbs do NOT end in -LY (some are the same as the adjective form), and many words which are NOT adverbs DO end in -LY (such as kindly, friendly, elderly and lonely, which are adjectives).

Here are some examples of adverbs which are the same as adjectives:
Adjective fast late early Adverb fast late early

 The best way to tell if a word is an adverb is to try making a question, for which the answer is the word. If the question uses how, where or when, then the word is probably an adverb.

Here is an example:
Word in context Junko plays tennis aggressively. They have a small house. Question How does Junko play tennis? What kind of house do they have? Adverb? Yes uses HOW. No uses WHAT KIND OF, so this is an adjective. Yes uses WHEN.

Matthew called the police immediately.

When did Matthew call the police?

 (e.g.: slowly, carefully, awfully) These adverbs are put behind the direct object (or behind the verb if there's no direct object).
direct object the car

subject He He

verb(s) drove drove

adverb carefully. carefully.

 (e.g.: here, there, behind, above) Like adverbs of manner, these adverbs are put behind the direct object or the verb.
subject I He verb(s) didn't see stayed direct object him adverb here. behind.

 (e.g.: recently, now, then, yesterday) Adverbs of time are usually put at the end of the sentence.
indirect object you direct object the story

subject I

verb(s) will tell

time tomorrow.

If you don't want to put emphasis on the time, you can also put the adverb of time at the beginning of the sentence.
time Tomorrow subject I verb(s) will tell indirect object you direct object the story.

 (e.g.: always, never, seldom, usually) Adverbs of frequency are put directly before the main verb. If 'be' is the main verb and there is no auxiliary verb, adverbs of frequency are put behind 'be'. Is there an auxiliary verb, however, adverbs of frequency are put before 'be'.

subject I

auxiliary/be

adverb often

main verb go swimming

object, place or time in the evenings.

He
We I

doesn't
are have

always
usually never

play

tennis.
here in summer.

been

abroad.

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