Adjectives and adverbs are alike in that they both are used to describe things. The difference between the two is what they describe. Adjectives describe nouns, whereas adverbs describe verbs. The easiest way to tell adverbs from adjectives is by looking at the ending. Most adverbs will have a suffix of -ly, whereas most adjectives will not. This rule does not always apply for determining whether a word is an adverb or not. The only real way to figure it out is to determine whether the word is describing a noun or a verb. Some adverbs examples are words such as happily, lovingly, thoughtfully, and peacefully. In the sentence: “she happily ran down the road,” happily is an adverb because it is describing the verb, ran. In the sentence: “she was happy as she ran down the road,” happy is an adjective because happy is describing she.
The Internet can be a great place to find a list of adverbs that are commonly used. However, there are thousands of possible words that can be used as an adverb, so a list of adverbs may not be as helpful as learning to identify an adverb within a sentence.