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Adverb

Meaning in linguistics & grammar, with examples

/ˈædvɜːb/nounCore term

In linguistics & grammar, adverb means: A word that adds information to a verb, an adjective, another adverb or a whole sentence, such as how, when, where or how often something happens.

In Turkish: zarf, belirteç

How it is used

Many adverbs end in -ly (quickly, carefully), but many do not (fast, often, here). Teachers group them as adverbs of manner, time, place, frequency and degree, and practise their position in the sentence.

Example sentences

  1. Adverbs of frequency usually go before the main verb: 'She always checks her email first.'

  2. In 'He drives really carefully', both really and carefully are adverbs.

Common collocations

  • adverb of frequency
  • adverb of manner
  • sentence adverb
  • adverb position
  • adjectiveA word that describes a noun or pronoun or gives more information about it, such as tall, interesting or Turkish.
  • verbA word that shows an action, event or state, such as run, become or know; in English it changes its form to show tense and agreement.
  • part of speechOne of the classes into which words are grouped by their grammatical behaviour, such as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition and conjunction.
  • word orderThe usual order in which words and sentence parts such as subject, verb and object appear in a language, for example subject-verb-object in English.

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