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:
For instance, I am not entirely sure what purpose is served in long lists of words ending in - ly that are adverbs formed on adjectives: a formula would not only have sufficed but would enable some words, like kindly and friendly , to have been especially marked.
In the usual meanings of positives, comparatives, and superlatives of English adjectives the gradations are taken to mean “--,” “-er/more --,” and “-est/most --,” the latter being the adverbs normally used to distinguish the comparatives and superlatives of polysyllabic 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.)
To make up for the missing verbs he attempted to add interest by scattering adjectives and adverbs everywhere.
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.