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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 the clause Who wrote Gothic and macabre short stories an adverb clause?
No. It is an adjective clause, as it begins with a relative pronoun (who).
No, it is not. Dismiss is a verb, which can mean release (a class, a subordinate) or ignore (a threat, a court case), or terminate, fire (an employee).
Is north an adjective or adverb?
It can be either, depending on what it modifies. Just as a direction, It is a noun.
Before a noun, it is an adjective, meaning northerly (a north wind, a north course).
After a verb, it is an adverb (e.g. we sailed north).
Adjective
Which words describes abjective?
The words that describe adjectives are adverbs; for example:
- a very funny man
- beautifully designed jewelery
- extremely sour apples
- too sweet coffee
- a barely sincere apology
- a cleverly disguised ruse
Is rapidly an adjective or an adverb?
rapidly is an adverb. adjectives are words that describe a noun. You can't say, like, the chair is very rapidly. Adverbs are words that describe verbs. You can say, he ran rapidly across the room.
How do you change leisure in adverb by adding ly?
The word leisure is a noun and an adjective. By adding the -ly to the end, it becomes an adverb, a word that modifies a verb or an adjective. Example use of the adverb:
We leisurely ate our lunch in the park before returning to work.
Dark is an adjective and a noun, but not an adverb (which would be darkly).
Adjective: The dark room is somewhat creepy.
Noun: Some children are afraid of the dark.
Once you move forward to another grade, things get harder and more complicated. It will take some time to get use to everything. After awhile you'll be more confident and everything will seem more easier.
What is the adverb in the sentence Judy's dog has a very ferocious bark?
Very is the adverb in that sentence.
Is there a thesaurus for phrases?
Yes... 1. Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
2. J.I. Rodale, Phrase Finder (Rodale Press, 1957)
In 1950, Joseph McCarthy told a Republican audience at Wheeling, West Virginia, that he had a list of 205 known Communists who were working in the State Department. He also said that the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, knew about the Communist influence in his department. McCarthy had no such list and the next day he could not even remember if he said 205 or 57. During the McCarthy witch hunt, he never released a single name and never fingered a single Communist in the government. McCarthy reached his peak of influence in 1952. Even the Republican candidate for President, Eisenhower, refused to publically denounce McCarthy, even though he detested the man. McCarthy's influence came to an end in 1954, when he took on the U.S. Army, accusing them of having known Communists in leadership. The Senate finally censured him in December, 1954 by a vote of 72 to 22.
No, the word 'gravely' is an adverb, a word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Example: The CEO spoke gravely of the future of the company.
The word 'gravely' is the adverb form of the adjective 'grave'.
The noun form of the adjective 'grave' is graveness.
The word 'grave' is also a noun form, a word for a place of burial for a dead body; a word for a thing.
The word 'grave' is also an obsolete verb meaning to carve or sculpt. Many people are familiar with the term from the Bible, 'a graven image'. The word 'graven' is the past participle of the verb to grave, functioning as an adjective to describe the noun 'image'.
No, it is not a conjunction. It is the past tense of the verb or auxiliary verb to do.
Is ' several' an adjective or an adverb?
The word 'several' is an adjective and an indefinite pronoun.
The adjective 'several' describes a noun as more than two but not very many:
- Several children were playing on the swings.
The indefinite pronoun 'several' takes the place of a noun for an unknown or unnamed number or amount:
- The children enjoy the playground, I saw several there today.
What is the plural form of very?
The word very is an adverb or an adjective, depending on how it is used in a sentence. There is no plural form.
What is gaze adverb or adjective?
The word 'gaze' is a noun (gaze, gazes) and a verb(gaze, gazes, gazing, gazed). Examples:
Noun: His gaze followed the plane until it was out of sight.
Verb: All I could do was gaze in amazement at what he had accomplished.
What are the verb noun adjective and adverb forms of some?
The word 'some' is a pronoun, an adjective, and an adverb. The word some is not a verb or a noun.
The pronoun 'some' is an indefinite pronoun which takes the place of a noun for an unknown or unnamed amount. Example:
- You may have some, we have more in the kitchen. (more is also used as an indefinite pronoun)
The adjective 'some' is placed before the noun it describes. Example:
- There are some people already waiting in line.
The adverb 'some' modifies a verb as reasonably close to or to a degree. Example:
- We talked some but couldn't come to a decision.
Is experiencing an adverb or adjective?
It is neither. Experiencing is the present participle of the verb (to experience) and can be used as a noun (gerund) but not an adjective. The past participle (experienced) is also used as an adjective, and most dictionaries do not recognize the adverb form (experiencedly).
Is dripping an adverb or an adjective?
Dripping may be an adjective (dripping faucets) but not an adverb. It is the present participle of the verb (to drip) and may be a noun, adjective, or participial (e.g. dripping from the tank).
Two kinds of verbs are transitive and intransitive.
A transitive verb has a direct object. He gave her a kiss. What did he do? He gave. What did he give? He gave a kiss. Kiss is the direct object. To whom did he give it? To her. She is the indirect object.
An intransitive verb does not have a direct object. He walked away. What did he do? He walked. Away is an adverb; it is not a noun. It is not a direct object. Walked is an intransitive verb.
What is Disability as an adverb adjective and verb?
Other forms of the noun disability and uses:
Verb: It's illegal to disable the odometer on a car.
Adjective: The disabled clerk is one of our more efficient employees. His disabling condition forces him to use his ingenuity.
The rarely-used adverb form is disablingly.
The adverb that modifies an adjective in the sentence is very (small, an adjective).
The other adverbs in the sentence are really (grow, a verb) and too (quickly, an adverb).
