In the following sentence, which word is an adverb used to modify a verb? The young girl quickly learned the rules of the board game.
a. Learned
b. Girl
c. Quickly
d. Game
The only adverb in this sentence is C, quickly. And it is used to modify the verb 'learned', or to say in what way the girl learned the rules of the game. B is a noun, as well as D.
