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adverbs

n. (plural of adverb English)

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Adverbs (novel)

Adverbs is a 2006 novel by Daniel Handler. It is formatted as a collection of seventeen interconnected narratives from the points of view of different people in various sorts of love. Each of the titles is an adverb suggesting what sort of love the people are dealing with. Some people are "wrongly" in love, others are "briefly" in love, and so on. The book focuses on the ways that people fall in love, instead of focusing on whom they are in love with.

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I should mention that some Quenya adverbs are derived from other parts of speech than adjectives.

Dialogue heavily weighted with adverbs after the attributive verb is cluttery and annoying.

Just as I thought that my mind would go down with the adverbs, I arrived at the predictably happy ending.

Scientists would be less embarrassed if they used a language, on the model of Amerindian Nootka, consisting of verbs and adverbs, and leaving off nouns and adjectives.

Amerindian Nootka, consisting of verbs and adverbs, and leaving off nouns and adjectives.

Since we have only a handful of words that Tolkien explicitly identified as adverbs, but plenty of adjectives, it would be nice if we could pin down a Quenya adverb-former like the English ending -ly.

In closing, I should mention that some Quenya adverbs are derived from other parts of speech than adjectives.

Summary of Lesson Ten: Adverbs are words used to fill in extra information about the how, the when, or the where of the verbal action described in a sentence.

Never commence a sentence with And, But, Since, Because, and other similar weak words and never end it with prepositions, small, weak adverbs or pronouns.