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adverbs

From Good Word Guide
Adverbs modify other parts of speech and answer questions such as how? (adverbs of manner): • quietly • greedily ; when? (adverbs of time): • then • tomorrow ; where? (adverbs of place): • there • outside . They can modify verbs: • She wrote neatly ; adjectives: • extremely hot ; other adverbs: • fairly well ; whole clauses or sentences: • Anyway, it doesn't matter now – or can be used to link clauses or sentences: • I dislike him; nevertheless, I feel responsible for him. Adverbs are frequently formed by adding - ly to an adjective: • darkly • wisely , but this does not apply to all adverbs: • to work late • to jump high . It is usually acceptable to place an adverb between parts of a verb: • I have often spoken about the matter , but adverbs should not come between a verb and its direct object. Whether the adverb is positioned after the object or before the verb depends on the length of the object clause: • They tortured the prisoners cruelly . • They cruelly tortured the political…
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Full text Article adverb

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Grammatical part of speech for words that modify or describe verbs (‘she ran quickly ’), adjectives (‘a beautifully clear day’), and adverbs (‘they did it really well’). Most adverbs are formed from adjectives or past participles by adding - ly (quick: quick ly ) or - ally (automatic: automatic ally…
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Full text Article adverbs

From Good Word Guide
Adverbs modify other parts of speech and answer questions such as how? (adverbs of manner): • quietly • greedily ; when? (adverbs of time): • then • tomorrow ; where? (adverbs of place): • there • outside . They can modify verbs: • She wrote neatly ; adjectives: • extremely hot ; other adverbs: • …
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Full text Article adverbs

From The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
Adverbs can modify many different kinds of words: verbs ( They sang beautifully), participles ( Singing loudly over the strings, she brought the song to an end ), other adverbs ( We will be arriving fairly soon ), whole sentences (Thankfully, the concert ended before it started raining ), and even…
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Full text Article sentence adverbs

From The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
We usually think of an adverb as a word that modifies a verb, like beautifully in She sings that song beautifully, or clearly in We could see the comet clearly through the telescope . The traditional test of an adverb is to ask a question of time, place, or manner: when, where, how . If the word…
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Full text Article adverb

From The Macquarie Dictionary
one of the major parts of speech, comprising words used to modify or limit a verb, a verbal noun (also, in Latin, English, and some other languages, an adjective or another adverb), or an adverbial phrase or clause. An adverbial element expresses some relation of place, time, manner, attendant…
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Full text Article Adverbs

From Collins French Dictionary and Grammar
Most adverbs are formed by adding -ment to the feminine form of the adjective → 1 -ment is added to the masculine form when the masculine form ends in -é , -i or -u → 2 exception : gai → 3 Occasionally the u changes to û before -ment is added → 4 If the adjective ends in -ant or -ent , the adverb…
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Full text Article adverbs, logic of

From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
a logical system or an interpretation thereof that enables formalizing natural language sentences involving adverbial modification. First-order logic (on its customary interpretation) does not offer a satisfactory treatment of adverbs. The problem is this: (1) Rachel spoke is standardly formalized…
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Full text Article operator theory of adverbs

From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
a theory that treats adverbs and other predicate modifiers as predicate-forming operators on predicates. The theory expands the syntax of first-order logic by adding operators of various degrees, and makes corresponding additions to the semantics. Romane Clark, Terence Parsons, and Richard Montague…
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Full text Article conjunctive adverbs

From The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
Conjunctive adverbs connect independent clauses or sentences. Accordingly, they must occur in a new sentence or in an independent clause following a semicolon. Using a comma to separate a clause that has a conjunctive adverb results in the grammatical fault known as a comma splice . Conjunctive…
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Full text Article Parts of Speech – Verbs and Adverbs

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Words can be put into categories depending on the job they do in a piece of writing. There are eight generally recognized jobs that words do and these are known as parts of speech . The eight parts of speech are: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. …
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