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ADVERB (CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADVERBS (SEMANTIC CATEGORIES covered by adverbs…
ADVERB
CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADVERBS
MEANING:
various circumstances attending an action
COMBINABILITY WITH:
prepositional combinations
prepositions
adverbs
nouns
the copular verb be
notional verbs
SYNTACTIC FUNCTION:
an adverbial
a situational modifier
a predicative
attribute
MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE:
derived
(forwards)
compound
(sometimes)
simple
(now, soon)
adverb equivalents
(at last)
MORPHOLOGICAL CATEGORIES:
invariable / often, soon and late
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degree of comparison
SEMANTIC CATEGORIES
covered by adverbs
degree
additive adverbs (too,also)
manner
stance adverbs (probably)
time
linking adverbs
place
QUALITATIVE ADVERBS
MEANING:
non-temporal property of other properties
COMBINABILITY WITH:
verbs
adjectives
adverbs
SYNTACTIC FUNCTION:
an adverbial of manner
(The children were
playing happily)
MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE:
derived
(calmly)
simple
(well,hard)
MORPHOLOGICAL CATEGORIES:
Qualitative adverbs
- the grammatical
category of degrees of comparison
fast - faster - fastest
clearly - more clearly - most clearly
DEGREES OF COMPARISON
positive and comparative
late - later - latest
carefully - more carefully - most carefully
EXCEPTION!
early - earlier- earliest