Adverbs

Adjectives or adverbs – part 2

February 10, 2011

Fine and finely The adverb fine means ‘well’. It is used in some informal expressions. She is doing fine. The adverb finely is used to talk about small careful adjustments. finely ground particles a finely tuned machine Free and freely The adverb free means ‘without payment’. The adverb freely means ‘without restriction’. Buy two shirts [...]

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Adjectives or adverbs? confusing cases

February 10, 2011

Adjectives ending in -ly Most adverbs end in -ly. There are also some adjectives ending in -ly. Examples are: costly, cowardly, deadly, friendly, likely, lively, lonely, lovely, silly, ugly etc. She is a lovely girl. (Here lovely is an adjective. It modifies the noun girl.) I love his friendly nature. (Here the adjective friendly modifies [...]

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Adverb clauses of time and place

January 27, 2011

An adverb clause serves the purpose of an adverb. There are different kinds of adverb clauses. Adverb clauses of time Adverb clauses of time are introduced by subordinating conjunctions like when, whenever, before, after, as, since, till, once and now that. Whenever I get an idea for a story, I jot it down in a [...]

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The adverb too

December 5, 2010

Too is an adverb. It is used before adjectives without nouns and before adverbs. I arrived too late. You are too generous. Too and too much Too much cannot be used before adverbs and adjectives without nouns. She is too fat. (NOT She is too much fat.) Too with other determiners Too is not normally [...]

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