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Started 1 day, 6 hours ago (2009-12-20 13:34:00)
by Pawa
Hi Everybody, I would have a question about adverbs. It is known that adverbs usually can be placed after the first auxiliary verb if they divide the verb structure. For example: "It can also be used." Instead of "In can be also used" which is not correct. However, there is an example: 1. "It can be successfully used." Instead of 2. "It can successfully be used." ...
Started 3 days, 10 hours ago (2009-12-18 09:53:00)
by aztatu
Hi everybody. As I've read, there are two kind of adjectives depending on how they can be classified regarding their quality degree: gradable and non-gradable My doubt is regarding the non-gradable ones and the adverbs we may use with them such as: "totally, completely, absolutely, utterly"... Even "almost". I set an example. As my book says: "Utterly" is usually applied to negative ...
Started 3 days, 14 hours ago (2009-12-18 05:52:00)
by Meyer Wolfsheim
Hello everyone, It is has only been recently (the last few months or so) that I finally came to understand that the placement of adverbs in a sentence doesn't really matter in most cases. Before I thought that an adverb would have to agree with what it modifies to be able to be placed anywhere in a line of syntax but I see now that adverbs modify the entire phrase, not just a ...
Started 3 days, 10 hours ago (2009-12-18 10:16:00)
by Gordo_The_Awesome
like walking in the ruins of some great civilization. Except...it's Twilight, so that comparison is insulting to actual civilizations. http://vampirely.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/chapter- one-adverbs-1-54/
Started 6 days, 1 hour ago (2009-12-15 18:38:00)
by magoosmom
adverbs are killing me here...Mason has a semester exam and he is trying to do this assignment. The directions are to circle the adverb or adverbs in each sentence and then draw an arrow to the word it modifies. I am second-guessing my answers, so here's one for an example...can you tell me if I'm reasoning it right? The book is entirely too long to finish in one day. So in ...
Started 5 days ago (2009-12-16 20:20:00)
by magoosmom
Yeah, I actually taught adverbs to 4th graders! But they still trip me up sometimes. I was reading it as how long? too, adverb. How long? extremely, adverb. Who knows at this point! If I told him wrong, maybe that will be the only one he missed on the test LOL. He's only got one more exam to go and I know he'll be happy to be done with it all! Thanks for all the input!
Started 1 day, 21 hours ago (2009-12-19 22:46:00)
by brian
Are you talking about adverbs in general or only ? In either case, the idea of an "adverb" can be conveyed in a language in numerous ways - as a word stuck somewhere in the syntax, as an affix to the word it modifies (a type of inflection), as an affix to the adjective that becomes an adverb, etc. For example, German doesn't distinguish in form between an adverb and an adjective*: Ich ...
Started 3 days, 17 hours ago (2009-12-18 02:56:00)
by Llohr
I can't seem to stay away from this topic no matter how I try. Wophugus, that was lovely example of how having an actual "no adverbs" rule would be, in a word, ridiculous. It reminded me of the old Churchill quote about ending sentences with prepositions. The usual version I hear is "That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put!" Many of the things we think of as "rules" ...
Started 2 days, 7 hours ago (2009-12-19 13:11:00)
by David Smullen
MPF I'd lighten up on the adjectives and adverbs. Isn't arrogance blatant and insanity limitless? If we able to set limits, we are not insane. And is false treachery somebody who showed up pretending to screw you over but actually was quite helpful?
Started 4 days, 3 hours ago (2009-12-17 16:41:00)
by november
Quote: Originally Posted by Le Type Français Congratulations, now work on verb tenses and using adverbs. Haha, I'll work on it. Most of the time I'm in a rush when I post because I am busy with other things, but I know I should proof-read and have better grammar in general. Have you ever ...
