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Adjectives modify verbs. That means that adverbs help to describe verbs. They provide us with more information about how something was done.
For instance, consider how the following adjectives might give us more information about someone walking down the road.
Jill was _______ walking down the road. slowly rapidly carefully quietly clumsily independently timidly bravely powerfully
Each of these adverbs give us a different picture of how Jill is walking (and what kind of road she is walking on). For instance, if she is carefully walking down the road, we might picture the road as being full of pot holes or other obstacles (in which case we might expect more details about these conditions in the following sentences if this sentence were part of a story).
Often we can create adverbs from adjectives:
ADJECTIVE ADVERB quiet quietly brave bravely timid timidly slow slowly quick quickly stubborn stubbornly