Adverbs are used to modify verbs. They tell us when, where, how, in what manner, or to what extent an action is performed. Some examples: In these examples, the adverbs are all just one word, but they can be made up of more than one word.
192,020 - Total number of those killed in Hiroshima, combining those killed instantly and those killed from radiation and other aftermath. The revised total was released at a ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the bombing. 3 - Number of days between the first and second atomic bombs dropped on Japan. On August 9, 1945, an implosion-model plutonium bomb code-named Fat Man, was detonated over Nagasaki. More than 70,000 - Number of people killed instantly in Nagasaki by the bomb.
Now, the names of the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki are notorious tombstones in history. The two atomic bombs dropped on the cities in August 1945, 70 years ago, claimed as many as 250,000 lives, according to some estimates of the death toll.