Words similar to adverbs
Example sentences for: adverbs
How can you use “adverbs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In a short section in which Postmodifying adverbs with adjectives are discussed, confusion is confounded by juxtaposing stiff neck with We were worried stiff .
To make up for the missing verbs he attempted to add interest by scattering adjectives and adverbs everywhere.
Deciding that the normal rules of punctuation and grammar promoted old-fashioned sentiment, she came up with new rules of her own (question marks and exclamation points verboten ; evocative nouns and adjectives dangerous; adverbs excellent, because they're about nothing more than the relationship between words).
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.)
Again and again one hears local and national broadcasters according an extra syllable to past participles as if the words were back-formed from adverbs, e.g., allegèd, assurèd, composèd, markèd, suffusèd, supposèd.