Topic: Adverb

In each of the following examples, indicate whether the highlighted word is an adverb or an adjective:

Adverbs are quite a varied class of words, which work in several different ways in sentences. Think of examples like obviously, afterwards, extremely, gently. These show that adverbs can express many different kinds of meaning.

This makes adverbs a useful word class. However, many experienced writers advise us to avoid overusing adverbs, and instead find other ways of describing actions and events.

Click on the words that you think are adverbs to select or deselect them.