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Example sentences for: adverb
How can you use “adverb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
But the preferred American convention of writing as two words an adverb-adjective combination when the adverb ends in - ly is also violated: British practice calls for widely-spread, closelyrelated (which appear under Athapaskan ), while standard practice in the US would write these as two words, hyphenating only modifying adverbs not ending in - ly : well-known, well-thought-of, easygoing . (These rules change if the combination appears in predicative position.)
The latter is not readily analyzable by normal parsing, for if we are drawn to retain the adjectival nature of stiff (instead of conceding that it might be used as an adverb), we are obliged to characterize worried as having taken on the guise of a copula.
Then we are given frabjous, as in O frabjous day!, which The Concise Oxford allows straightforwardly as meaning delightful, joyous and has provided the adverb, frabjously.
He then explained that he too had discovered the formula for the two-word adverb clause and that, moreover, he had been able to replace all nouns, adjectives, and adverbs with phrases and clauses.
In addition to being eminently readable, my super-sentence is characterized by two clever strokes: a clause within a phrase within phrase within a clause within a phrase in the first five words, and the distillation of the adverb clause into a two-word cluster, “when [he was] challenged,” instead of the previous three words, “more than I.” Not only are all the structures as concise as they can be, but, with the exception of the subject, Leadere , all nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are now replaced by phrases and clauses.
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