And when asked to underline the qualitative adjective in a sentence written out on the chalkboard, the star pupil homes in on the adverb. |
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The first element in the phrase is an adverb, an adverbial qualification or an object. |
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Some writers put an adverb of manner at the beginning of the sentence to catch our attention and make us curious. |
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And adverb placement is relatively easy to study by automatic or semi-automatic means. |
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For decades now self-appointed grammar mavens have railed against the use of hopefully as a sentence adverb. |
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The illative is used selectively and usually as an adverb of place, but in some dialects of Lithuanian, all four locatives are still in use. |
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A good example of the unpredictable and often capricious nature of usage controversies is the current issue of hopefully as a sentence adverb. |
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A conspectus of his doctrines is given in the Syntax, which deals mainly with article, pronoun, verb, preposition, and adverb, successively. |
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But a simpler explanation is that the wayward adverb in the passage is blowback from Chief Justice Roberts's habit of grammatical niggling. |
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And for these writers, gingerly is pretty clearly just a common-or-garden adverb formed in ly. |
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Teenage speech in Greenock includes the F-word as verb, adjective, adverb, or expletive in almost every sentence. |
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Since miss is a noun in this phrase, it should be modified by an adjective, not an adverb. |
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This goes as much for an awkward split infinitive as it does for an adverb placed oddly in order to preserve the integrity of the infinitive. |
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The use of the adverb 'only' both in the recital and in the habendum put this beyond argument. |
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You may move backward or backwards, because both spellings are correct when this word is used as an adverb. |
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The word was not being used as a verb, adjective, adverb or even a reactive interjection. |
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It can be used as a noun, as an adjective, as an adverb, and even as an interjection! |
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You couldn't get a noun and a pronoun and an adverb out in that time. |
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King says comics exist largely to eliminate the adverb, and that for Grayson, action is character. |
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This sentence contains two independent clauses, three adverb clauses, one noun clause, and one adjective clause. |
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For example, in the phrase the woman walked quickly the adverb quickly derived from the adjective quick describes the woman's way of walking. |
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Negation is done with the adverb not, which precedes the main verb and follows an auxiliary verb. |
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To test this, take some magazine which professes to popularize news events, and strike out every adjective and adverb which seems dispensable note how much more authoritative and less tinted by opinion the items appear. |
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This prepositionary will help learners of French, occasional writers and language professionals easily find the preposition that goes with the verb, adverb or adjective they wish to use. |
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The amendment provides for an increase in the minimum size of the radicchio head when released for consumption and the deletion of the adverb 'completely' regarding the colour. |
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As previous word is understood the preceding one if it is not an adverb. |
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These too had been reduced in the Council's draft budget. Mrs Wideroos, I shall leave it to you to choose a suitable adverb to characterise this reduction. |
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The first part of a compound word is either a noun, an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb. |
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Certain verbs are often used progressively and verbs of motion may be dropped before an adverb or adverbial phrase of motion. |
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The substantive verb is used when the predicate is an adjective, adverb, or prepositional phrase. |
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If we delve further into the cooccurrence criterion, we see that adverb classes are not only occurrentially compatible or incompatible. |
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Main signs represent the major element of the block, and may be a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, or phonetic sign. |
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The word there in such sentences has sometimes been analyzed as an adverb, or as a dummy predicate, rather than as a pronoun. |
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Adjectives can be modified by a preceding adverb or adverb phrase, as in very warm, truly imposing, more than a little excited. |
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Sometimes it is called an adverb, and at other times an intransitive prepositional phrase. |
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The object of a prepositional phrase is to function as an adjective or adverb. |
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Even among the most adverbially disinclined, virtually everyone recalls backtracking on promises not to use the adverb. |
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An adverb phrase is a phrase that acts as an adverb within a sentence. |
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Similarly, adjective phrases and adverb phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases the terminology has different implications. |
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Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb and a primary, invariable adverb, the latter including the heads of reduced prepositional phrases but excluding adpreps. |
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