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Example sentences for: adverb
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It may be symptomatic of such losses that today the adverb of choice is clearly, used even more often than the hucksters' Free! , and, since clarity of expression and thought is seldom evident, this frequent repetition of clearly can be seen as a kind of mantra, a prayer that begs our indulgence, asks us to take the wish for the deed, and, what is far worse, seeks to convict us of ignorance and stupidity should we look elsewhere for enlightenment.
As Koslowska correctly points out, the choice of adverb or adjective depends largely on the verb, adverb, or substantive being modified.
As only Chomskyan grammar is covered in the book, entries are lacking for such common grammatical concepts—albeit from other disciplines, like traditional grammar— substantive, dependent clause, independent clause, conjunctive adverb, adverbial conjunction, misplaced (or dangling) modifier , etc.—all terms well established in discussions of nonChomskyan grammar.
a word (as the noun book), hyphened or open compound (as the verb book-match or the noun book review), word element (as the affix pro-), abbreviation (as agt), verbalized symbol (as Na), or term (as man in the street) entered alphabetically in a dictionary for the purpose of definition or identification or expressly included as an inflected form (as the noun mice or the verb saw) or as a derived form (as the noun godlessness or the adverb globally) or related phrase (as one for the book) run on at its base word and usu.
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.
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