What are Adverbs?Adverbs add information to verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to tell about how, when, where, or to what degree an action or quality occurs. Adverbs are similar to prepositions because they can tell where and when an action happens. Adverbs do other jobs too. In fact, adverbs do so many jobs, it will take several lessons to teach them to your students. 1. Adverbs tell how an action is done. These adverbs often end in -ly, but don’t always. For example, she yelled loudly. 2. Adv