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Rica B. Salon Bsed-English 1B. Reading Assignment 7
Rica B. Salon Bsed-English 1B. Reading Assignment 7
SALON
SUBJECT: LINGUISTIC 3
READING ASSIGNMENT 7
Examples:
1. Adverbs of manner
- Some adverbs, called manner adverbs or adverbs of manner, describe “how,” “in what way,” or “by what
method” an action or condition occurs. More examples of manner adverbs are foolishly, quickly,
otherwise, and namely. A manner adverb may replace a prepositional phrase that functions adverbially.
2. Adverbs of time
- An adverb of time indicates duration, repetition, date and frequency. Some present-time adverbs are
immediately, now, today, and tonight. Future-time adverbs include soon and tomorrow and adverbs
showing repetition or duration include always, often, rarely, and seldom at the same time an adverb of
time may replace a prepositional phrase.
3. Adverbs of place
- An adverb of place or location (also called a locative adverb), or of direction, shows the place at which the
action of the verb occurs or the direction that it takes. It often answers the question “where” or “in (at)
what place” and the manner adverb can/may replace a locative adverbial phrase.
4. Adverbs of degree
- An adverb of degree describes the intensity or quality of an action in terms of “how much,” “how little,”
or “in what degree” it also generally modifies the adjectives.
5. Adverbs of reason
- An adverb of reason or cause answers the questions “why” or “for what purpose” while the several
adverbs of reason are conjunctive.
6. Adverbs of consequence
- An adverb of consequence (sometimes called a consequential adverb) introduces a clause that states an
inference, conclusion or result based upon the faced situation some examples of consequential adverbs
are so that, such that, therefore, and thus.
7. Adverbs of number
- An adverb of number (also called a numeric adverb) indicates order or position. Adverbs of number are
traditionally formed by adding the -ly suffix to ordinal numbers like secondly, thirdly, etc. But such forms
are now generally considered less editorially desirable: the ordinal numbers alone can function
adverbially.
8. Interrogative adverbs
- Interrogative adverbs are used to ask questions; they include words like how, when, where, and why.
Such an adverb can be used to ask a direct question or an indirect question. Interrogative adverb can also
modify some word or phrase in the sentence, it also often presents a question about manner, time, place,
degree, reason and number.
9. Exclamatory adverbs
- Many of the same words that function as interrogative adverbs can be used to introduce exclamations as
well, when used in this way, these words are called exclamatory adverbs.
Adverbial Degrees
Comparative forms
- A comparative adverb compares the quality of a specified action shared by two things, most one syllable
adverbs that do not end in -ly form the comparative by taking the suffix -er. These forms are called
synthetic comparatives. Multisyllable adverbs usually form the comparative with more or less these forms
are called periphrastic comparatives. But there are exceptions for adverbs that end in -ly if the -ly is not a
suffix.
Superlative forms
- A superlative adverb compares the quality of a specified action shared by at least three things. While in a
loose sense, the superlative is sometimes used for emphasis rather than comparison. These forms are
called synthetic superlatives. Multisyllable adverbs usually form the superlative with most or least. These
forms are called periphrastic superlatives.
Irregular adverbs
- A few adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms. While a good dictionary is the best
resource for finding an irregular adverb’s forms of comparison.
Noncomparable adverbs
- Many adverbs are noncomparable. Some, by their definitions, are absolute and cannot be compared and
most adverbs indicating time, position, number, or place, are also noncomparable.
Importance of placement
- An adverb’s placement is also important because adverbs show time, place or source, manner, degree or
extent, reason, consequences and number. Moreover, Adverbs can also express comments or
observations of such situation.
Adverbial objective
- Sometimes a noun element functions as an adverb or adverbial phrase that completes a predicate: this is
called an adverbial objective, but other noun elements commonly have this function.
Adverbial clause
- A dependent clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb in the independent clause is called an
adverbial clause. Essentially, it is a subordinate clause that functions as an adverb. Although the
placement of an adverbial clause is variable, generally it follows the word it modifies if it expresses place,
manner, result, or comparison.
“Only”
- The word only can function as an adverb, an adjective, or a conjunction and it can also modify to any part
of speech. In its adverbial uses, it is sometimes called a focusing adverb. When referring to the subject of
a sentence, only usually precedes the subject. When referring to (and unambiguously) before what it
logically modifies or else in “mid-position” (maybe ambiguously) in a position that to many speakers of
English feels more comfortably idiomatic. The mid-position only may be acceptable in speech because the
speaker can use intonation to make the meaning clear. But there is no guidance from intonation in
writing, so the more words there are between only and the word it truly modifies, the greater the chance
that the sentence will be genuinely ambiguous.