Grammar girl here, today we're going to see if we're allowed to drive slow instead of

slowly.

Maybe jump high or sit up straight?

What about the advertising slogan Eat Fresh?

Yes, today is adverb day with a sprinkling of adjectives.

Let's start with a basics.

An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun.

For example, in the sentence that is a real diamond, real is an adjective that modifies

the noun diamond.

Other examples of adjectives are happy and equal, squiggly through the girl a happy

smile, adverb hoped for equal time to charm her.

An adverb on the other hand modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Adverbs often have an L-Y at the end, as in happily and heartily.

Squiggly happily posed for the cameras.

Our adverb heartily hoped he would get a turn in the limelight.

Such adverbs are usually formed by adding L-Y to the end of an adjective.

As we just did with the adjectives happy and hearty, we turn them into happily and heartily.

Other adverbs, however, such as very, don't fit this pattern.

You might complain, for example, Sam eats very noisily.

In that sentence, the adverb very modifies another adverb, noisily.

It's very noisily.

To confuse matters, adjectives can also end in L-Y.

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