Adverbs Flashcards by Mateo Cocco

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Morphological classification of Adverbs

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Common suffixes: -ly (except “fast”)
Gradability: -er and -est

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Syntactic classification of Adverbs

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Can modify adjectives, other adverbs, verbs and clauses
Negative Adverbs: “hardly, seldom, little, never, only, scarcely”
Trigger inversion if initial position

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Adverbs Modifying Verbs

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Before main verbs
Between main verb and constituent that’s not a NP
In sentence final position
In sentence initial position

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