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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
No, it is not. The word paused is a past tense verb or past participle, or an adjective meaning temporarily stopped.
No, it is not. It is an adjective (odd, strange, or inquisitive), and the adverb form is curiously.
It is an adverbial phrase. Both words separately are adverbs, but quite is an adverb of degree modifying the adverb clearly, which modifies a verb.
Can perforce be used as a noun?
No, the word 'perforce' is an adverb, a word that modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb as by force or circumstances.
Example: My bills are in arrears so I must perforce find a second job.
No, it is not. Traveling (also travelling) is the present participle of the verb to travel and can be a verb form, a participial, a noun, or an adjective/noun adjunct (as in traveling salesman).
No, it is not. the word miss is a title, a noun (not a hit), or a verb (to not hit a target, or to feeling longing).
After a fire, the owl easily finds food in open areas.
No it is not. It is an adjective, and the adverb form is pleasantly.
The adverb clause is "since advertisements are sometimes misleading" and it is modifying the verb "read" in the sentence. The subordinate conjunction "since" introduces the adverb clause that explains the reason or cause for reading labels carefully.
Neither word is an adverb. The compound noun "pop music" combines the noun or adjective "pop" (meaning popular) with the noun music, to describe a genre of music.
Is knowingly an adverb or an adjective?
It is an adverb, you know that because it ends in '-ly' and it is used to modify a verb: 'the accused knowingly participated in the unlawful removal of stolen goods'.
Adverbs are words that describe the action of a verb.
These words often end in -ly
Examples:
We quickly ran down the ugly stairs.
quickly is describing the verb to run
The cats crept silently through the house.
silently describes the verb to creep
The little girl mockingly smiled.
mockingly describes the action of the verb to smile.
What is the adverb in the sentence Workers built a swimming pool indoors?
Indoors is the adverb in that sentence. It's an adverb of place, which tells where the pool was built.
What word is the adverb for misery?
Adverbs are created from adjectives: quick > quickly, electrical > electrically . . miserable > miserably.
No, it is not an adverb. Beach can be a verb (to go from the sea onto a beach or rocks) or a noun, which can also be a noun adjunct with other nouns as in beach sand and beach ball.
No, valley is not an adverb.
The word valley is a noun, since it is a place and a thing.
No, survive is a verb. There is no formal adverb for the adjectives surviving or survivable.
Is the word rusty an adjective or an adverb?
Think of this: 'a rusty nail' . . 'nail' is a noun, therefore the modifier 'rusty' is an adejctive.
An adverb modifies a verb: 'He walked steadily'.
The adverb form pinkly is rarely used, and means "in a pink manner" (suggesting a color change).
Another less recognized adverb form is "pinkishly" (which has the same general meaning).
What does carefully the adverb mean?
When you do something carefully it means you are careful when you do it.
Carefully modifies the verb 'do', while 'careful' modifies the (pro)noun 'you'.
