Adverbs are words that modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. ‘Farmer Frank drives carefully.’ ‘Carefully’ is an adverb describing ‘drives’. It tells us how Farmer Frank drives.

Adverbs are basically verbs to which letters ‘ly’ have been added and are used to modify verbs ... degree and so forth. Examples include, “He picked up and rocked the crying baby gently ...

Some adjectives can be turned in to adverbs by adding –ly. When adverbs are used to modify a verb, generally they can be placed before the subject, before the main verb or after the direct ...