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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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Yes. It can modify a verb or an adjective. It is the adverb form of the adjective immediate.
What is the meaning of adverb of frequency?
Adverbs of frequency tell how often something is done. In the following sentences the adverbs are bold.
I always go to school. Sometimes my friend doesn't go to school. We never get out of school early
No, the word "holly" is not an adverb.
The word "holly" is a noun.
How do you use momentarily in a sentence?
The word 'momentarily' is an adverb, a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Examples:
He ran out for a quick errand and we expect him toreturn momentarily. (modifies the verb 'return')
We were momentarily afraid that we had missed the train. (modifies the adjective 'afraid')
I looked away from the toddler momentarily, but somehow he disappeared. (modifies the adverb 'away')
Long can be a verb, an adverb, or an adjective.
Verb: I long for the good old days.
Adverb: That was very long ago.
Adjective: I have a very long pencil.
Yes, it is. It means in a constant, continuous, or repetitive manner.
Less is used both as an adjective and an adverb.
Adjective: We should have less confusion.
Adverb: We should have confusion less often.
Adverb: We should confuse them less.
The seven questions that adverbs answer are...
1. how
2. how much
3. when
4. where
5. why
6. to what extent
7. under what conditions
What word can be an adjective and adverb?
There are many words that can be adjectives or adverbs depending on how they are used. They include some adverbs of time, manner, degree, or condition. Some examples include:
Time: early, late, daily, weekly, yearly, hourly, quarterly
(e.g. weekly report, mow the lawn weekly)
Manner: fast, slow, high, low, straight, just, left, right
(e.g. a just decision, just barely)
Degree: most
(e.g. most people, the most impressive)
Condition: clear, clean, dirty, hard
(e.g. a hard task, he works hard -- not hardly)
No, it is not. It is the past tense and past participle of the verb, to tend.
It is rarely used as an adjective.
What is the adverb for curious?
the adverb for curious is seriously because when you use that in curious it suits very much...
No, it is not an adverb. Made is the past tense (and past participle) of the verb to make.
Adverbs describe how, when or where an action is done.
What is the difference between an adjective phrase and adverb phrase?
The easiest way to identify and differentiate between an adjective phrase and adverbial phrase is:
Whenever<u>,</u> A preposition is with a noun or pronoun or has relation to such that it modifies the noun and pronoun It is an **adjective phrase.**
For example: He stood between his mother and his father.
Here the underlined word is an adjective phrase as it has a relation to the subject (He) and modifying him
All the other prepositional phrases are adverbial phrase
As they modify the verb, an adverb or an adjective.
For example: Draw a line under each word you don't know.
Here underlined word is adverbial phrase (as there is no relation between the underlined word and the subject)
No, it is not an adverb. Waiting is a verb form and gerund (noun), and can be an adjunct or adjective (waiting patients, waiting room). The seldom used adverb form is waitingly.
Close can be used as a noun, verb, adjective or adverb.
Its use as an adverb is used in the sense of in a close manner or position,; tightly; nearly; densely secretly.
Examples of close being used as an adverb are:
a close relative
a close friend
a close shave
It can be either. There can be a pronoun, adjective, or adverb, and much more rarely a noun or interjection.
No. It is the past tense of compete.
One adverb is the adverb form of the adjective competitive, which is competitively.
No, it is not. It is the past tense and past participle of the verb, to thrill. It can be used as an adjective.
