The document defines adverbs as words that provide additional information about verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs by describing how, why, where, when, to what extent, or under what circumstances. It notes that adverbs often but do not always end in -ly and can be compared using positive, comparative, and superlative forms. Examples are provided to illustrate how adverbs describe verbs and adjectives in biblical passages. The document also cautions that some words like "around" can function as either prepositions or adverbs depending on the context.

1. Adverbs

2. Adverbs
 Adverbs are words that give more information about the
action of the sentence – i.e., the verb – or about an
adjective or even another adverb. Adverbs often answer
questions like:
 How?
 Why?
 Where?
 When?
 Under what circumstances?
 To what degree or extent? (This is the sense in which adverbs
generally describe adjectives and other adverbs.)
 Adverbs often, but do not always, end in -ly

3. Adverbs (2)
 “I began to weep bitterly because no one was found
worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.” (Rev 5:4
NRSV)
 How was John weeping?
 “I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for
my name's sake.” (Rev 2:3 ESV)
 How are the believers enduring?
 “When the disciples heard this, they were greatly
astonished.” (Matt 19:25 NIV)
 To what extent were the disciples astonished?

4. Adverbs (3)
 Like adjectives, adverbs can be compared:
 Positive: “bitterly”
 Comparative: “more bitterly”
 Superlative: “most bitterly”
 Irregular comparisons also exist:
 Well, better, best
 Little, less, least
 Badly, worse, worst

5. Caution: When adverbs look like
prepositions
 “And when he had looked around at
everything, as it was already late, he went out to
Bethany with the twelve.” (Mark 11:11).
 “Around” is often used as a preposition, as in “I
heard the voice of many angels around the throne”
(Rev 5:11 NASU). In Mk 11:11, however, “around”
describes the action of “looking” – Where did Jesus
look?