Adverbs: how it is done

In the story 'The Old Stag', the stag greeted his friends warmly every day. The word 'warmly' tells HOW he greeted them. A word that tells how something is done is called an adverb of manner.

Your book, Santoor, gives two more examples on page 49: 'The old stag slowly recovered': slowly tells how he recovered. 'The rabbit quickly ate the carrots': quickly tells how the rabbit ate.

Many of these words end in -ly: badly, cheerfully, quietly, carefully, loudly. But not all of them: 'fast' tells how too, as in 'She runs fast.'

On page 49 there are twelve words, and all of them are adverbs. But only six tell HOW something is done: badly, cheerfully, quietly, carefully, fast and loudly. The others tell something else. Soon, lately and early tell WHEN. Regularly tells how often. Nearby tells WHERE. Highly tells how much.