adverb

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Adverb

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈæd.vɜːb/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈæd.vɝb/

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• Hyphenation: ad‧verb

Noun

Singular adverb

Plural adverbs

1. (countable) An adverb is a kind of word that generally modifies verbs and other words (but not nouns); adverbs usually answer questions such as how?, why? and to what extent?.

   In the clause "Jane ran quickly," "quickly" is an adverb because it tells you how Jane ran.

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause