adverb

[ US /ˈædvɝb/ ]
[ UK /ˈædvɜːb/ ]
NOUN
  1. a word that modifies something other than a noun
  2. the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
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How To Use adverb In A Sentence

  • Yeah, the adverb problem has bitten me in impolite places a hundred times and they’re usually the first to go when the story gets passed around my friends. Dialogue is a dance « Write Anything
  • But it's a prepositional phrase used adverbially, modifying ‘said’.
  • At the moment I am trying to master 5 different tenses of verbs and also adverbs, pronouns and other vocabulary.
  • If too comes after the adverb it is probably a disjunct (meaning also) and is usually set off with a comma:
  • Adverbs Adverbs describe verbs in the same way that adjectives describe nouns.
  • The following sentence contains both adjectives and adverbs. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
  • The reason is that some of these disyllabic prepositions are used as adverbs, and, when separated from their nouns, give one the impression that they are used as adverbs. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
  • Does the sentence contain an adverb?
  • Sentence adverbs are useful. Times, Sunday Times
  • The word's warm informality also makes it usable as what might be called an adverbial noun, modified by an adjective.
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