EXERCISE 1. IS THE ITALICIZED WORD AN ADVERB OR AN ADJECTIVE

6. The patient’s temperature was checked hourly.

II. Some words that do not end in ly—for example, long and fast—can be adverbs or

adjectives. Again, we must see how such words are used in their sentences before

saying that they are adverbs or adjectives.

Is long an adverb in this sentence?