adverb
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Watch out mister, the Save The Adverb mob are coming to get you.
From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2014
"Adverb: Used in reference to something very striking or remarkable of its kind."
From Time • Aug. 21, 2011
Lil got up from her table where she was doing our English class exercise that was supposed to show us More Wonders of the Adverb.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
Adverb; a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb; as, very, slowly, clearly, often.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas
It begins thus: "In speech be these eight parts following: Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle, declined; Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition, Interjection, undeclined."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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