Ah, the adverb train station. If you want to find out about adverbs, there is no better place.
An adverb tells you how something happens.
Here is a train moving “quickly” on the track.
“Quickly” is an adverb here as it describes how fast the train is moving.
And look, here is another train, this one is moving very “slowly” on the track.
“Slowly” is an adverb here as it describes how fast the train is moving.
Oh, here is a group of passengers, waiting “patiently” for their train.
“Patiently” is the word describing the verb “waiting”.
Oh dear.
Here is the Gorilla Monster, he wants to play with the train!
Oh, you are playing “nicely” with the train, aren’t you?
“Nicely” is the adverb here as it describes how the Gorilla Monster is playing with the train.
“Playing” is the verb, because that is what the Gorilla Monster is doing!
An adverb describes the nature of a verb!
The Gorilla Monster “expertly” launched the train into space!
Description
An adverb is a word that describes a verb. For example:
He ate his breakfast quickly
The word ‘quickly’ is an adverb as it tells us how he ‘ate’ (the verb) his breakfast.
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