What is an Adverb? Adverbs are “description words.” But while adjectives are also “description words”, adjectives describe nouns (like people, places, things), and adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. An adverb’s main job is to answer one of these questions: Many adverbs end in -ly (like slowly, carefully, happily), but many do not (like … Continue reading Grammar: Adverbs (Difficulty: Easy)