Adverbs Flashcards

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What are adverbs?

A

Optional modifiers of verbs that can form adjuncts

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Give a morphological quality of adverbs

A

They generally end in -ly, but can also be “well” and “fast”

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How do adverbs differ from adjectives?

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In syntactic distribution, as they can never appear in the same distribution (complementary distribution)

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