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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
How do you change feeble to an adverb?
The adverb form is feebly.
He tried feebly to open the door.
Adjectives that end in -LE drop the E and add Y instead of adding -LY as other adjectives do. (nimble -> nimbly, simple -> simply, humble -> humbly)
yes, it is because it describes the verb in a sentence; for instance "the clear blue sky."
clear, is the adverb because it's describing the type of sky.
"Quietly" is an adverb because it describes how an action is being done. In this case, it explains how something is being done in a quiet manner. Adverbs often provide information about where, when, or how an action occurs in a sentence.
What is the adverb for absence?
The noun absence has the verb and adjective form absent. The related adverb form is absently, which, however, has a connotation beyond simple absence: it suggests inattentiveness, absent-mindedness.
Today is an adverb when it describes "when".
I will go home today.
Today modifies the verb "go" by telling "when" you go.
Another opinion:
Today is a noun, not an adverb, nor an adjective. What it counts is its primary function in a sentence, not depending on how it is used. According to Babylon, today is :
today
n. current day.
An adverb modifies a verb, and an adjective qualifies a noun.
Today is always today anytime of the current day, so it is always a noun.
No, "wrinkly" is an adjective used to describe something that has wrinkles. An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb, but "wrinkly" does not serve this purpose.
What are some adverbs that describes heart?
red, big, small, bloody, warm, hope this helped! I considered that u might mean a heart that would go on a valentines card or a real heart in your body.
Heart is a noun and adverbs don't describe nouns. Adverbs give extra information about verbs.
For example, verb = walk, adverb = quickly, She walked quickly to school.
All the words above - red, small etc are adjectives.
No, it is not. Dapper is a somewhat archaic adjective for neat or well-dressed.
Yes, it is. It is the adverb form of the adjective powerful.
What is the adverb form of disaster?
The adverb of disaster is disastrously.
An example sentence is: "he disastrously bankrupted the company with his over-spending".
No, there is no common adverb meaning "done in a drawn manner."
The purpose of that sentence, The quick red fox jumps over the lazy brown dog is only to illustrate a sentence with every letter of the alphabet in it.
No. Responsibility is a noun. The adjective form is responsible and the adverb is responsibly.
What adverbs could describe you?
No adverbs can describe you. The word you is a pronoun, and adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
No, the word contest is not an adverb.
The word contest is a verb ("we will contest the decision") and a noun ("I entered the contest").
No, the word 'instead' is an adverb, a word that modifies a verb as 'in place of' or 'preferably'.
Examples:
I ordered the blue but the green came instead.
Instead of walking, we rode the bus.
A noun is a word for a person, a place, or a thing, for example:
person = friend, mother, neighbor, manager, actor;
place = city, country, continent, park, island;
thing = bird, apple, house, tulip, question.
No, it is not an adverb. Rubbish bin is a compound noun.
No, it is an adjective. The rarely seen adverb is freakily. The similar adjective freakish (like a freak) has the common adverb form "freakishly."
No, there is no adverb form of skipping. The word skipping is the present participle of the verb to skip.
Well, it may or may not be an adverb depending upon the usage if the work "skipping" answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much" in that scenario it would be an adverb.
So, in the sentence I am skipping. Skipping is clearly not an adverb, but in a sentence like I went to the school skipping, skipping is an adverb
