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Adverbs
Includes questions related to the comprehension, usage and identification of the parts of speech that modify a verb, adverb or adjective such as quickly or very.
6,107 Questions
Is 'very' an uncountable noun?
The word 'very' is not a noun.
The word 'very' is an adjective (a word that describes a noun) and an adverb (a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb).
Examples:
Adverb: Your father is a very tall man.
Adjective: The very idea of my vacation keeps me going.
Is who were all comedians an adverb or adjective?
In the sentence 'Who were all comedians?' the word 'who' is an interrogative pronoun; the word 'were' is the verb; the word 'all' is an adjective describing the noun 'comedians'.
No. Cascading is a verb form (to cascade) that can be used as an adjective.
The rarely recognized adverb form is cascadingly (in a cascade).
No, it is an adjective. Adjectives tend to describe nouns (things), whereas adverbs tend to describe verbs (actions).
For example, in "It was a rainy day," day is a noun, a thing. So rainy is clearly an adjective.
No, it is not an adverb. The word bed is a noun (and colloquially a verb).
Yes, suspiciously is an adverb. It means in a manner causing suspicion.
Why do not all adverbs end in ly?
Language isn't designed and built like a building, language evolves from the languages before it. The English language evolved from a number of languages, and includes words adopted from languages outside it's origins.
That is why all adverbs don't in in 'ly''; that's why all the rules have exceptions; that's why many words have very different meanings that aren't related.
What is the adverb form of solve?
Solve is a verb (meaning to find a solution). It does not have an adverb form. It does have an adjective form-- solvable.
Is the clause an adverb in the sentence Since you left our house early we washed the car?
Yes, it appears to be an adverb of cause: the car was washed because someone left early. But was it washed because they had nothing else to do, or because they couldn't get to the car otherwise?
Is everything an adverb or a verb?
It is neither. The word everything is a pronoun or a noun (e.g. he lost everything, as the object).
What is the adverb of merriment?
There is not adverb form for the noun merriment; but a closely related adverb is merrily. Example sentence:
She sang merrily as she went about her work.
No, the word office is not an adverb at all.
The word office is in fact a noun.
How can you tell whether a word is use as an adjective as an adverb?
By observing the form/structure/construction of that word.
for example:
tease - verb
teasing- adj
teasing - n
teasingly -adv
The verbs usually are very simple. They can be known easily. They are not noticeably or specially built.
But adj - are usually formed with the suffixes '-ive', '-able', '-ed' '-ing' or sometimes simply built. (fat, thin, big, tall, sage)
Nouns are also obvious for being built with the suffixes, '-ness, -ment, -tion,...)
But the naming words should be studied hard. (e.g. remote, bank, apple, boy,...)
Adv are also obvious. Normally, they are built with '-ly' but some irregular adv like: hard, plain, slow, quick, ...
No, it is not an adverb. Fraction is a noun (a part). The word has come to be used as a verb, rather than the original, which is "fracture."
Is the word absolutely an adverb?
Yes, it is absolutely an adverb, did you need to ask that here? Google will provide all dictionary answers in whole.
