100 Examples of Adverbs (Explained)

Adverbs

The adverbs are words that complement the verbs, to the adjectives or even other adverbs. They are used to express place, quantity, time, mode, doubt, affirmation, etc. For example: I bought a lot of. (Adverb of quantity)

Unlike adjective (which must match gender and number with the word it complements), the adverb is always invariable. For example: My daughter knows a lot of. / My children know a lot of. The adverb "much" (which in this case complements the verb "to know") does not vary, although the gender and number of the noun (son / children) is changed.

This invariance allows distinguishing the presence of an adverb from that of an adjective, since the adjective does vary. For example: Read Quite of French literature.("Enough" is an adverb of quantity) / Read quite a lot French literature books.("Enough" is an adjective and accompanies the noun in number)

Types of adverbs

Adverbs indicate a circumstance associated with the action of the verb and that is why there are different types of adverbs: adverbs of time, place, manner, quantity, company, instrument, purpose, cause and membership; and that they answer questions such as how? when? where? how much? with whom? with what? for what? why? from whom?

There is another category of adverbs that do not answer any particular question, but that add information and complete or qualify the meaning of the sentence. Such is the case of the adverbs of doubt, of desire (or desideratives), comparative, interrogative, exclamatory, affirmative and negative.

Adverbs of place

Time adverbs

Adverbs of manner

Adverbs of quantity

Adverbs of doubt and denial