hi- pl. explain how do we identify the adverbs in a sentence

[ansumania]

hi,

though there are a couple of rules for identifying the adverbs in a sentence like: asking how, when , where , how much; these questions don't help in identifying the advrbs always.

Even the rule "adding ly" at the enddoesn't help all the time. There are a lot of exceptions.

Is there a better way to identify the advebs in a sentence and to know whether it is correctly placed or not?

Again, how can we always identy correctly whether one word is an adverb or an adjective as there are certain words which have the same form for both? Is there an exhaustive list?

please explain.

regards,

Ansuman

[thephoenix]

what the word is actually modifying will help u to understand whether its an adj or adverb
if the word being modified is noun then the modifier is adj
if its verb , adverb or adj then the modifier is adverb

[ansumania]

hi,

I guess that would help for now. Let me follow the same and see what happens.

regards,

Ansuman