Modifying word

Usage examples of adverb.

They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

You start with that adverb, and then you follow it with an adverbial clause, and then you follow all that with an adjective.

There are certain times when an adverb or an adverbial phrase can be used to establish the motivation.

We must caution the would-be novelist to use adverbs and adverbial clauses sparingly.

Count the adverbs or adverbial clauses in your first chapter and decide if you have used them sparingly.

He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.

Latin purists, my apologies for using the word boni as an adjective and an adverb as well as as a noun.

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.