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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.
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Is the word not always an adverb?
The negative word "not" is practically always an adverb, modifying adjectives (e.g. not large) or adverbs (e.g. not completely). But it can be used with linking verbs to indicate a negative state (e.g. He is not a hero) and has been adopted in logic programming to be a noun (a NOTis an operator that returns an inverse state: false if the operand is true, true if the operand is false).
It can be, when it is a direction. An example is "we went up in a balloon."
It can also be an adjective or preposition (up the tree), and colloquially a noun or verb.
What is a synonym for exceptionally?
extraordinarily
amazingly
marvelously
wonderfully
(it is a superlative form of very)
Is women's an adjective or adverb?
It is a possessive, which functions as an adjective for things of, about, or belonging to people.
What are the adverbs in the sentence Dad always takes a map on trips?
Always is an adverb of frequency.
How do you write a sentence using coffee that includes an adverb?
An adverb is a word that modifies the verb or says how the verb was done. For example: "I drank the hot coffee carefully" tells you that the coffee was so hot I had to be careful not to burn my mouth.
Are adverbs synonyms or antonyms?
They can be either, depending on whether they mean about the same, or about the opposite, of another adverb. The adverbs extremely and very can be synonyms. The adverbs far and near, or in and out, are antonyms. Some adverbs cannot have opposites.
What are the 5 kinds of the adverb?
adverb of time,place,manner,degree,affirmation,negatio and frequency
The word "some" is generally an adjective or a pronoun.
"We walked for some time" (adjective)
"Some think the Earth is flat" (pronoun)
Yes, everywhere is an adverb of place.
It can also be a pronoun if used to mean the name of a location (e.g. "everywhere we go is crowded").
It can also be a conjunction (e.g. I could see thunderstorms everywhere I looked.)
It can be an adverb (much smarter, much more easily), but it can also be an adjective (e.g. much has been said),
What is the adverb for imagine?
The adverb, although it is rarely seen, is imaginarily. Much more common are the adjective form, imaginary, and the negative derivative adverb unimaginably.
How do you use an adverb in a sentence that tells when?
Adverbs modify verbs and explain how the verb happened. For example, you might say "Tomorrow we are going to buy Christmas presents for our friends." "Tomorrow" tells when.
Is the word down an adjective or an adverb?
It can be either. The word "down" used as an adjective can mean going down, or depressed. The adverb down means downward.
Yes, it can be an adverb (acted alone) or it can be an adjective (he was alone).
Can last be used as an adverb?
Yes. Last is an adjective and an adverb as well as a noun and verb.
An example is "At the party, Bill arrived last."
What is the adverb in the sentence She finishes a book easily in one or two days?
The adverb is easily, as it refers to how she reads a book.
Yes the word badly is an adverb.
Badly is almost always used as an adverb.
Examples:
She runs badly. (Badly is describing the way she runs.)
He wants a new TV badly. (Badly is describing the how much he wants the TV. Wants is the verb.)
They did badly in the elections. (They did not do well.)
However, it may be considered an adjective when it is used with the verb "feel."
"He felt badly about the mistake."
Here, the opposite would be 'he felt good' about it, and good is an adjective. On the other hand, referring to health, saying 'he felt good' is actually an informal way of saying 'he felt well.'
