(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(10) However, percentages of sensibilities have been replaced by adverbs or adjectives, applying a scale of equivalence.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).
Genitival
Definition:
(a.) Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.