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What Is an Adverb?
An adverb is a part of speech that describes an adjective, another adverb or a verb. Adverbs give more information about how an action was performed. In general, they answer questions like, how, why, where, and when. An adverb can do this on its own, with just one word, as illustrated by examples of adverbs in sentences. Groups of words (phrases or clauses) that function as adverbs can also perform this function in sentences.
She walked slowly. (adverb)
She walked like an old lady. (adverb phrase)
She walked as if she were heading to the gallows. (adverb clause)
In each of these sentences, the bold word or group of words answers the question "how?" and describes the verb "walked."
What Is a Clause?
A clause is a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb. This differs from a phrase, which doesn’t have a subject and a verb.
Phrase vs. Clause
In reviewing the difference between phrases and clauses, consider the previously listed examples of words being used together to function as an adverb in a sentence.
She walked like an old lady. (phrase)
She walked as if she were heading to the gallows. (clause)
In these examples, "like an old lady" does not contain a subject and a verb, and is, therefore, an adverb phrase. However, "as if she were heading to the gallows" does contain a subject (she) and a verb (were heading), making it an adverb clause.
Types of Clauses
Clauses can be either independent or dependent. Independent clauses are complete sentences, so that's not what adverb clauses are. Dependent clauses, also known as subordinate clauses, cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. Adverb clauses are one type of dependent clause. They are distinct from other types of dependent clauses because they function as an adverb.