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Adverbs commonly modify verbs to provide information about how, where, when, or to what extent an action is performed.
- She sings beautifully. (How does she sing? Beautifully)
- He runs quickly. (How does he run? Quickly)
- They arrived late. (When did they arrive? Late)
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Adverbs can also modify adjectives to provide additional information about the quality or degree of the adjective.
- She is very intelligent. (How intelligent is she? Very)
- He seems quite tired. (How tired is he? Quite)
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Adverbs can modify other adverbs to indicate the degree or manner of an action or state.
- She sings very loudly. (How loudly does she sing? Very)
- He speaks quite softly. (How softly does he speak? Quite)
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Adverbs can modify entire clauses or sentences to indicate the speaker's attitude, evaluation, or viewpoint.
- Surprisingly, she passed the exam.
- Unfortunately, it started raining.
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Adverbs are frequently used to express time, frequency, or duration of actions.
- They will leave tomorrow.
- She exercises daily.
- He worked all night.
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Adverbs can indicate the location or direction of an action.
- She looked everywhere.
- He went upstairs.
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Adverbs can express cause-and-effect relationships within a sentence.
- Consequently, they missed the train.
- Therefore, they decided to leave early.
