The McGraw-Hill Handbook  Ex. 4.8  page 108

Identifying Adverbs and Adjectives  

Remember:

Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns.
Adjectives answer the questions: How much? How many? Which kind? Which one? Whose?
The words—the, a, an—are called articles and are adjectives.
Adverbs describe verbs, adverbs and adjectives.
Adverbs answer the questions: How? When? Where? Why? To what extent or degree? Under what condition?  

The articles are not marked.  

  1. Later he drifted silently across the warm, moonlit street.  

Adverbs: Later, silently  
Adjectives: warm, moonlit  

  1. Clearly solar heat offers many advantages, but both the equipment and its installation have high costs.  

Adverbs: Clearly  
Adjectives: solar, many, its, high  

  1. Japanese planes roared swiftly over the motionless battleships at Pearl Harbor early on Sunday, December 7, 1941.  

Adverbs: swiftly, early  
Adjectives: Japanese, motionless  

  1. Many state education departments now enthusiastically support the use of hand-held calculators on various mathematics and science tests in elementary and secondary school classrooms.  

Adverbs: now, enthusiastically  
Adjectives: Many, state, education, hand-held, various, mathematics, science, elementary, secondary, school  

  1. I learned to appreciate Hebrew by hearing our cantor sing during the Friday-night Sabbath services, but I never understood exactly what the songs meant because I did not know the language well enough.  

Adverbs: never, exactly, well, enough  
Adjectives: our, Friday-night, Sabbath

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