How do you use the word "adverb" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "adverb" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "adverb": However, the preposition+relative pronoun (which) part becomes a relative adverb (where). This is an adverb.

Adverb Meaning

/ˈæd.vɜːb/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.

nounIn the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.

Sentence Examples

However, the preposition+relative pronoun (which) part becomes a relative adverb (where).

This is an adverb.

Does the sentence contain an adverb?

CEFR Practice Quiz

In the sentence "She sings beautifully", the word "beautifully" functions as an ____ modifying the verb.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

In the sentence 'he ran quickly', the word 'quickly' is an ____.

Word Origin & History

Borrowed from French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verb(um) (“word, verb”) + -ium, so called because it is used to supplement other words (not specifically verbs). By surface analysis, ad- + verb.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections." — 1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page 91:

"‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb." — 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

"Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb." — 1973, Indian Linguistics, volume 34, page 241:

"Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described." — 1998, English linguistics:

"Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing." — 2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, page 8:

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