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adverbs
Example Sentences
He was too busy riding shotgun on stagecoaches through the Sierras to sit at a desk agonizing over adverbs.
There are the many-claused thickets of adverbs and unlikely similes of writing done on Adderall.
Some adverbs can modify a sentence rather than a verb alone.
Or have House Speaker John Boehner introduce a bill to outlaw adverbs in this campaign, thus rendering Newt mute.
And it is accordingly by adverbs, and accessory adjectives, that the degrees of comparison are expressed.
But I would rather be looney that-a-way than to have as much sense as King Solomon and all his adverbs.
The numerals of the language are converted into adverbs by the inflection ing, making one, once, &c.
In Japanese adverbs are formed by suffixing ni and to, like the English ly and French ment.
But excepting a few, the whole class of words, denominated adverbs, can be resolved into other parts of speech.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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