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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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No. Spent is the past tense (and adjective) for the verb spend. There is also no adverb form of the adjective spendable.
The word "peered" is a verb.
An example sentence is:
He peered through the dusty window.
What is the adverb of excessive?
Excessively is the adverb form of the word "excessive"
Some example sentences are:
He was arrested for excessively swearing in the street.
My wife always goes excessively overboard when preparing snacks for guests.
Is the word risky an adverb or an adjective?
Risky is an adjective. An example sentence is "He was planning a risky endeavor."
What is the adverb for attacked?
The adjective "attacked" does not have a regularly-used adverb (i.e. attackedly, attackingly, and attackably do notexist).
There can be any number of adverbs for "attacked". Two examples are harshly and suddenly.
What is the adverb for dangerously?
The adverb dangerously can refer to situations involving objects or people.
Objects can present danger, and the opposite of dangerously could be "innocuously" or "harmlessly."
e.g. The ship was dangerously overloaded.
Persons who act "dangerously" could instead act "carefully" or "cautiously." For a characteristic, an antonym could be "acceptably" or comfortably.
e.g. He was dangerously close to the enemy lines.
Picnic is usually used as a noun:
We are having a picnic on the weekend.
But it can be used as a verb:
We will picnic beside the river.
icily
She greeted me icily, and I knew this was not going to be easy.
Examples of verbs to use with the noun fun are:
- have fun
- is fun
- was fun
- bring fun
Examples of synonyms for the noun 'ice' are:
- frozen water
- ice cube
- H2O
- dry ice
- hail
- glacier
- glaze
- frost
- iceberg
- diamond (informal)
What is the adverb for nimble?
The word nimble is an adjective. the adverb form is nimbly (in a nimble or agile manner).
It is a sentence modifier - it limits or qualifies the sense of another word,
Occasionally is an adverb. It has the synonyms infrequently, sporadically, or sometimes.
Is of the mountain highlands an adverb or a adjective?
It would most likely be an adjective prepositional phrase because it will modify a noun.
What is the adverb in the huge ox rushed over?
Over is the adverb. Over is also a preposition, but when it's paired with a verb it becomes an adverb.
What type of adverb is frantically?
If you are asking for an adverbial form of the word frantically, that word is already an adverb. If you are asking for another adverb which can be used to modify frantically, the best choice would be very. The trapped animal was trying very frantically to escape.
It can be either, depending on what it modifies. If it follows a noun, it can be an adjective phrase, but it is more often an adverb phrase answering "where."
Example:
The footprints in the wet sand had already disappeared - adjective, tells which footprints
He left footprints in the wet sand - adverb, tells where they were left
What is a sentence using an adverb?
He traveled far.
I know that you write well.
Scared, I ran away from the haunted house.
Those are three examples of a sentence with an adverb.
The adverb form of the adjective rough is roughly. It can mean in a rough manner, or can be used as a synonym for "approximately."
What is the adverb for the word aqua?
The word "water" and the word "agua" have the same meaning as aqua.
