Question

Identify the adverb in the following sentence:
I was hardly satisfied by your incomplete answer.
a. I
b. Hardly
c. Satisfied
d. Answer

Answer 1

Hint: What does an adverb do? It modifies a verb, adjective or another verb. So, you need to find the verb, or adjective used in the sentence and then find which word modifies it.

Complete answer:
As you can see in the above given sentence the verb used was – ‘satisfied’. Now, let us look for the word that is acting as a modifier, we will see that it would be the word – hardly.
Hardly can be defined as - scarcely or be used to qualify a statement by saying that it is true to an insignificant degree. This is doing the work of an adverb as it shows how much or in what manner the subject I (in the sentence) was ‘satisfied’ by the answer.
These kinds of adverbs are classified as – adverbs of manner because they are used to tell us the way or how something is done.
Therefore, as you can see from the explanation given that the option b – hardly is the correct solution for the above given question.
You can also look into other options and why they are not correct, other options are –
Is a pronoun
Is an adverb and the correct answer as mentioned earlier
Is a verb in the past tense
Is a common noun

Note: You must know the different types of adverb and their usage to fully understand and solve the questions easily.