Question

What is/are the adverb(s) in the following sentence?: The snail quickly crawled past the hare that was slowly hopping forward.

Answer 1

Hint: An adverb is a word that modifies or characterises a verb, such as: He sings loudly, an adjective, such as: extremely tall, another adverb, or even a complete phrase, such as: Thankfully, I had packed an umbrella. Although many adverbs finish in -ly, some, such as quick, have the same appearance as their adjective equivalents.

Complete answer:
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb is known as an adverb. Adverbs are used to describe things like manner, place, time, frequency, degree, and level of certainty.

They respond to the following questions:
1) How is something?
These include adverbs such as: quietly, loudly, gracefully, joyfully, etc.

2) This answers the question of “where?”
It includes adverbs such as: above, far, back, here, inside, etc., gracefully, joyfully, etc.

3) When will something happen?
These include adverbs: tomorrow, now, then, last year, etc.

4) How much or to what extent?
This includes adverbs such as quite, fairly, barely, too, etc.

5) How often does something happen?
These include following: always, sometimes, rarely, seldom, etc

In the above sentence, "Quickly" and "Slowly" describe how; "past" and "forward" describe when and where. So, the adverbs in this are: "quickly", "past", "slowly", and "forward"

Note: Some adverbs have the ability to change complete sentences, and they are known as sentence adverbs. Among the most common are generally, fortunately, interestingly, and appropriately. Sentence adverbs express a general emotion about all of the information in the phrase rather than a specific element in the sentence.