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adverb

[ad-vurb] / ˈæd vɜrb /
NOUN
word modifying a verb
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Watch out mister, the Save The Adverb mob are coming to get you.

From The Guardian • Sep. 2, 2014

"Adverb: Used in reference to something very striking or remarkable of its kind."

From Time • Aug. 21, 2011

Lil got up from her table where she was doing our English class exercise that was supposed to show us More Wonders of the Adverb.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Then afterwards he brings a reproof, wherein the Adverb prius hath Relation to another Adverb, as it were a contrary one, which follows, viz. nuper even as the Pronoun qui answers to the Word idem.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

An Adverb is a word joined by way of limitation or emphasis to a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray




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