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Definition:
The part of speech (or word class) that is primarily used to modify a verb, adjective, or other adverb. Adverbs can also modify prepositional phrases, subordinate clauses, and complete sentences. Adjective: adverbial.
Positions of an Adverb:
An adverb that modifies an adjective ("quite sad") or another adverb ("very carelessly") appears immediately in front of the word it modifies. An adverb that modifies a verb is generally more flexible: it may appear before or after the verb it modifies ("softly sang" or "sang softly"), or it may appear at the beginning of the sentence ("Softly she sang to the baby"). The position of the adverb may have an effect on the meaning of the sentence.
Functions of an Adverb:
Adverbs typically add information about time (rarely, frequently, tomorrow), manner (slowly, quickly, willingly), or place (here, there, everywhere).
Forms of an Adverb:
Many adverbs--especially adverbs of manner--are formed from adjectives by the addition of the ending -ly (easily, dependably). But many common adverbs (just, still, almost, not) do not end in -ly, and not all words that end in -ly (friendly, neighborly) are adverbs.
Etymology:
From the Latin, "in relation to" + "word"
Examples:
- "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
(Robert Louis Stevenson) - "War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously."
(Andre Malraux) - "Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciouslydrunk."
(Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, 1927) - "I will not torment the emotionally frail."
(Bart Simpson, The Simpsons) - "Life is that which--pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially--interrupts."
(Cynthia Ozick, "Pear Tree and Polar Bear," Esquire, August 1985) - http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/adverbterm.htm
- "Life is that which--pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially--interrupts."
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