adverbs

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of adverb.
  adverb

  noun

  any 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).

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adverbs

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

Also inseparable from their prefixes, which endowed them with meaning, were adjectives and adverbs.

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

Pronouns are one of the eight main parts of speech, the others being nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

But the historical trend is in the opposite direction: adverbs and adjectives are more often distinguished today than they were in the past.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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