1 Adverbs
An adverb, as you can probably guess, has something to do with verbs. Adverbs work with verbs in a similar way to how adjectives work with nouns. They make the verb more precise, or add detail to what the verb tells us. For example, he talks fast, I ran slowly, or the cat miaowed loudly.
In English, you can often make an adverb by adding the morpheme -ly to the end of an adjective.
| Adjective | Adverb |
| quick | quickly |
| slow | slowly |
| nice | nicely |
| easy | easily |
| sudden | suddenly |
| thoughtful | thoughtfully |
| close | closely |
| distant | distantly |
Not every adverb ends in -ly, though (for example, fast or hard). The ones that do are mostly adverbs that tell us about how something was done or how something happened. But a few others, like too and also, can do this job as well.
Some adverbs tell us where and when the action of the verb took place: here, there, everywhere, always, never, still, yesterday, today, tomorrow are all adverbs.