(n.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty normal and twenty aphasic subjects were tested for their understanding of implicit meanings of the French adverbs même (even), aussi (also), and surtout (mainly).
(2) Redistribution of parts of speech expressed in diminution of the proportion of verbs because of the predominance of pronouns and adverbs is explained by a reduced ability to formulate utterances, probably due to autism.
(3) The greatest difference was in syntactical elements, with manics using more action verbs, adjectives, and concrete nouns, while the depressed patients used more state of being verbs, modifying adverbs, first-person pronouns, and personal pronouns.
(4) Toward the goal of identifying valid labels for use on Likert scales with black-American respondents, 105 black-American adults scaled each of 27 adverbs (e.g., very, most) on four different adjectives (e.g., important).
(5) In exchange, proportionally to their vocabulary, they used more adverbs, pronouns and numerals than the normals.
(6) Both aphasics and controls used more nouns than adverbs in their sentences.
(7) In Japanese, they govern every aspect of the language: verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns and even pronouns.
(8) The adverbs were not scored at the extremes of the continuum, despite our asking the respondents to rate the adverbs used to define the end points of the continuum.
(9) There is not the slightest reason to interdict an adverb from the position before the main verb, and great writers in English have placed it there for centuries.
(10) However, percentages of sensibilities have been replaced by adverbs or adjectives, applying a scale of equivalence.
(11) While the phantom of fake depression has mushroomed across our shared understanding of disability spending the spending itself has been cut (habit propels me to add an adverb like "alarmingly" or "savagely", but actually "cut" is enough).
(12) Although some attention has been given to the scale characteristics of modifying adverbs in Likert scales, the existing work has been concerned primarily with majority group members.
(13) I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown Purists might protest that the adjective "good" should be the adverb "well".
(14) Sometimes children are given competing terms for when they're writing: eg "connectives", which, when they're doing grammar, they will have to unlearn and call conjunctions or adverbs.
(15) One of the commonest insults to the sensibility of the purist is the expression "very unique" and other phrases in which an "absolute" or "incomparable" adjective is modified by an adverb of degree such as "more", "less", "somewhat", "quite" or "almost".
(16) More generally, the preverbal position is the only one in which the adverb unambiguously modifies the verb.
(17) Indeed, it's a good habit to at least consider moving an adverb to the end of the verb phrase.
(18) Litt's team wanted the selection-term definition to exclude restricting adjectives and adverbs like "uniquely" and "specifically."
(19) Yet, the analysis of individual responses allowed the identification of three different subgroups of aphasics: the first produced responses identical to the normals' responses; the second seemed to ignore the adverb and systematically selected the figure with the highest amount of the asserted color; and the third produced responses identical to the normals' responses for surtout but had difficulties with même or aussi.
(20) The purpose of the present study was to compare intensity levels assessed on Borg's Category Scale for Ratings of Perceived Pain (BRPP) (1982) (a verbal scale using adjectives and adverbs combined with the numbers 0-10), with assessments on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) (a 10 cm horizontal line).
Clause
Definition:
(n.) A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
(n.) A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
(n.) See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(3) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(4) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
(5) But in an indicator of Guardiola’s attraction it is understood that Nolito decided to join City from Celta instead, the club triggering his release clause of around £14m and the player agreeing a four-year contract.
(6) Chelsea have paid the buyout clause in Costa’s contract – he shares the same agent as Mourinho, Jorge Mendes – and the club are pushing ahead with the rest of their business.
(7) And for him, that project has to start with a history lesson: he wants to see Labour relearn the lessons of 20 years ago, when Tony Blair fought off objections from the trade unions to redraft Clause IV of the party’s constitution, which had committed it to securing “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange”.
(8) Manchester United poised to trigger Pedro’s £22m Barcelona release clause Read more Van Gaal wants to strengthen in two areas of the team before the transfer deadline.
(9) Thorbjørn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, raised concerns about the sunset clause.
(10) At the heart of the battle is the "release" clause that was included in Suárez's new contract, signed last August.
(11) The results were analysed from the standpoint of grammar of clauses and their informative contents.
(12) Asked about Ian Davidson's proposal for a break clause in the contract (see 10.26am) , Coaker said he did not know whether this was feasible.
(13) The 26-year-old – currently serving a domestic 10-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season – could yet force the situation by handing in a formal transfer request , or even asking the Premier League to intervene over the interpretation of the now infamous get-out clause.
(14) A simple one clause Abolition of Privacy Bill: "The tort of misuse of private information is hereby abolished" might be thought to be sufficient.
(15) Word reading times increased with the cumulative number of new-argument nouns at clause boundaries (as well as at sentence boundaries).
(16) Reps are asked to sign a contract that includes the clause: “I will not promote the singing of abusive, offensive, crude or intimidating chants and songs.” The contract also asks reps to confirm that they are “the first representative of the University of Nottingham that new students will meet and therefore recognise that [they are] a role model”.
(17) A conscience clause, however, will allow individual clergy to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages.
(18) Though we must leave plenty of opt out clauses for religions that don't like gays so they don't have to marry them if they don't want to.
(19) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
(20) Clubs agreed in principle that if another club pays the buy-out clause they will sell at that total price, meaning that the player does not actually pay the money: it effectively becomes a transfer like any other.