adverbs
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The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
adverbnounany member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She'll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to bethere ), time (Do your homeworknow! ), manner (She singsbeautifully ), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I'm very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly).
Example Sentences
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A line such as this one, from Carrickfergus, a traditional ballad Shane admired, says more about state of mind than any sentence loaded with adjectives and adverbs.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
And as English majors, what mostly alarmed us then were all the adverbs author J.K.
From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022
So let your subjects and verbs pack the punch, and reserve adjectives and adverbs for special occasions.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Yes, straight, right, hard, and the rest are bona-fide adverbs and have been for many centuries.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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