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Definition of Adverbs

1. adverb [n] - See also: adverb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adverbs

Literary usage of Adverbs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"adverbs.. adverbs modify so many different parts of speech— besides ... In accordance with general principles, adverbs precede adjectives, adverbs, ..."

2. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"Particles cannot always be distinctly classified, for many adverbs are used also as ... adverbs DERIVATION OF adverbs 214. adverbs are regularly formed from ..."

3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"IV Derivative or Compound adverbs. Most adverbs are particles which are ... The commonest of the adverbs derived from other words may be divided into the ..."

4. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind by James Mill (1869)
"adverbs. The power of this class of words, in the great business of marking, ... adverbs may be reduced under five heads; 1, adverbs of Time; 2, adverbs of ..."

5. English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an by Lindley Murray (1809)
"The inquisitive scholar may naturally ask, what necessity there is for adverbs of time, when verbs are provided with tenses, to show that circumstance. ..."

6. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1897)
"B. Case-forms used as adverbs. § 439. Accusatives as adverbs. Several adverbs retain the pronominal ending -d: of these kdd is peculiar to KV. ..."

7. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1879)
"THE seven languages are rich in adverbs, and have a specially symmetrical range of pronominal adverbs, corresponding to the several classes of pronouns. ..."

8. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"The other primitive adverbs of Place are by, of and of, on, to and too, with. ... What is the origin of adverbs? Give an instance of an adverb derived from ..."

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