Question

Choose the sentence with the appropriate adverb
a. She rose from her lowly position in the society
b. He bent low, barely avoiding the kick aimed at his chest.
c. Living on a low income is a struggle
d. The show’s ratings were at an all-time low.

Answer 1

Hint: Anything that adds to the meaning of a verb, is known as an Adverb. The trick to remember this definition is Ad (add meaning)+verb = Adverb.

Complete answer:
The very first step to solving such questions is to read each word of all the options very carefully. And then try to find out that word in the sentence which is somehow defining the manner in which the action through the verb has been carried out. Now, in these sentences, the word which is repeating itself is ‘low’, we have to figure out in which option ‘low’ is giving a specification to the verb.
In the first option, the word ‘lowly’ is used in reference to position, which is not a verb so it is an incorrect alternative.
The second option is correct because the word ‘low’ is used after the verb ‘bent’ and it defines how the person carried out the action.
Therefore, option b is the correct answer.
Now that we have found out that option b is correct, the next two alternatives are cancelled out because, in option c, the term low is used to describe the kind of income and is not used with respect to the verb in the sentence i.e. living and in option d, low is used in the context of being lowes, not giving any value addition to the verb, hence it's incorrect.

Note: Many times words like ‘lowly’ are considered to be adverbs, without even reading the complete sentence. Avoid such mistakes by reading the question and options carefully.