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Adverb
"Adverb" in a Sentence (17 examples)
In English there are eight main parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and finally interjection.
However, the preposition+relative pronoun (which) part becomes a relative adverb (where).
This is an adverb.
An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or sometimes another adverb.
Tom doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
It's not always easy to distinguish an adjective from an adverb.
Adverbs in English have different placement rules depending on if the verb the adverb affects is auxiliary or not.
This word is a verb, it is not an adverb.
This here is an adverb.
When must an adverb be used?
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322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb.
I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
It was often cold outside.
Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.
Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.
Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing.
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