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.
The nightmare aftermath of Hiroshima: Parents carry burned children past corpses and rubble in rare photographs taken during the days after atomic bomb killed 140,000 people.