adverb
/ad-vurb/US // ˈæd vɜrb //UK // (ˈædˌvɜːb) //
副词,副词语,副语,副语词
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n.名词 noun
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Grammar.
- : 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, time, manner, circumstance, degree, or cause.
Synonyms & Antonyms
nounword modifying a verb
Forms: adverbs
Examples
King says comics exist largely to eliminate the adverb, and that for Grayson, action is character.
But there is a critical adverb up there: “almost certainly” is not the same as “certainly.”
It is to be noted here that the adverb has the vowel of the old feminine termination a, and not the modern o.
The word "difficulty" was sometimes employed as an adverb; herein it is converted to "difficultly" in this usage.
The demonstrative adverb thus implies a relative adverb: comp.
By adding to this word, the particle de, it is converted into an adverb of place, and may be rendered where.
Wunder is an adverb, as in at feht wes wnder strong, L 1744; mid wunder muchele strenge, id.
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