B1-e: Adverbs
B1-eAdverbs
An adverb is a word used to modify, or qualify, a verb (or verbal), an adjective, or another adverb. It usually answers one of these questions: When? Where? How? Why? Under what conditions? To what degree?
Pull firmly on the emergency handle. [Pull how?]
Read the text first and then complete the exercises. [Read when? Complete when?]
Place the flowers here. [Place where?]
Adverbs modifying adjectives or other adverbs usually intensify or limit the intensity of the word they modify.
The words not and never are classified as adverbs.
Multilingual Multilingual writers can find more about the placement of adverbs in M3-f.