adverb
pronunciation
How to pronounce adverb in British English:
UK [ˈædvɜ:b]
How to pronounce adverb in American English:
US [ˈædvɜrb]
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- Noun:
- the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses
- a word that modifies something other than a noun
Word Origin
- adverb
- adverb: [15] Adverb comes ultimately from a Latin word modelled on Greek epírrhēma, literally ‘added word’. The elements of this compound (the prefix epi- and rhēma ‘word’) were translated literally into Latin (ad- and verbum), giving adverbum. English took the word either directly from Latin, or via French adverbe.=> verb
- adverb (n.)
- late 14c., from Late Latin adverbium "adverb," literally "that which is added to a verb," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + verbum "verb, word" (see verb). Coined by Flavius Sosipater Charisius as a translation of Greek epirrhema "adverb," from epi- "upon, on" + rhema "verb."
Example
- 1. An adverb is added to describe how she sleeps .
- 2. Grammars 21 -- adjective and adverb .
- 3. Ought I use a different adjective and a different adverb in that sentence ?
- 4. He does not know an adjective from adverb .
- 5. Mark liberman , a linguistics professor at the university of pennsylvania , provided a list of words that most commonly follow the adverb " severely " ; the top five , in frequency of use , are disabled , depressed , ill , limited and injured .