What are adverbs?

Question

what are adverbs? plz give me some examples so that i understand. the dictionary is too hard to understand.

what are personality traits?

what are transitions?

These are things i need to have in my narrative writing, but i dont know what they are.

Answer 1

an adverb basically describes a verb. For example: The girl walked quickly. (Quickly (the adverb) describes the girl's walk).

Personality traits are those things that make up your personality (who you are), like "she was an impatient person", "the man had a bad temper", "He always cheated at games", etc.

Transitions (related to narrative writing), are words or phrases that bring you from one idea to another, generally at the beginning of the next paragraph. For example, if you wrote a paragraph on a person's habit of being impatient, you could transition in the next paragraph with something like, "In addition to being impatient, my sister had another bad habit." You would then go on to explain what that habit was in the rest of the paragraph. There are also transitional words, such as: "next", "however", "in addition to", etc.

Answer 2

Using Adverbs
Adverbs modify verbs. They tell you How something is done.

Example: How does he she sing? - She sings beautifully.

Rule: Adverbs are often formed by adding -ly to an adjective

Example: beautiful - beautifully, careful - carefully

Be Careful!

Some adjectives don't change in the adverb form. The most important of these are: fast - fast, hard - hard
Good is probably the most important exception. The adverb form of 'good' is 'well'. Unfortunately, this is a common mistake that many Americans make!
NOT!!: He plays tennis good.
Rule: Adverbs can also modify an adjective. In this case, the adverb is placed before the adjective.

Example: She is extremely happy. They are absolutely sure.

Be Careful!

Do not use 'very' with adjectives that express an increased quality of a basic adjective Example: good - fantastic
NOT!!: She is a very beautiful woman.

Rule: Adverbs of frequency (always, never, sometimes, often, etc.) usually come before the main verb

Example: He is often late for class. Do you always eat in a restaurant? They don't usually travel on Fridays.

Be Careful!

Adverbs of frequency expressing infrequency are not usually used in the negative or question form. NOT!!: Does she rarely eat fish? They don't seldom go to the cinema.
Adverbs of frequency are often placed at the beginning of a sentence. Example: Sometimes, he likes to go to museums.
Adverbs of frequency follow - come after - the verb 'to be'. Example: He is sometimes late for work.

Answer 3

Adverbs are words that modify
adverbs often tell when, where, why, or under what conditions something happens or happened
EX: That LOVELY woman lives in a FRIENDLY neighborhood.

Personality is the collection of characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are associated with a person. Personality traits are characteristic behaviors and feelings that are consistent and long lasting.

EX: Sara constantly bites her nails.

transitions are from one form, state, style, or place to another

EX:Sports The process of changing from defense to offense or offense to defense, as in basketball or hockey.

Answer 4

Adverbs describe verbs- example- he ran slowly,( Slowly is the adverb because it is describing the verb ran.)

Personality traits are things like outgoing, shy, bubbly personality.
Transitions are when you change from one subject to another in writing.

Answer 5

Adverbs are most useful in writing, but watch for them in your dialogue tags. To avoid using them in tags, I think of them as "adverblys"; in other words, any word ending with 'ly.'

Here's an example: "Oh, poor baby," she said consolingly.

Omit the adverb and let the reader determine the tone and voice of the character.