adverbs

Example Sentences

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A line such as this one, from Carrickfergus, a traditional ballad Shane admired, says more about state of mind than any sentence loaded with adjectives and adverbs.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2023

The bound words were nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that always existed with markers indicating a relation to other objects, events or states.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023

And as English majors, what mostly alarmed us then were all the adverbs author J.K.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2022

Pronouns are one of the eight main parts of speech, the others being nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

People who confuse the two may think that the adjectives in these sentences “modify the verb” and hence ought to be replaced by adverbs.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker