Hello,
Is there any adverb in this sentence…?
The night of bright stars, pale moon, and glistening ocean waves was one of the most beautiful scenes ever seen.
Yes, there are two of them.
Most (Adverb of degree)…??
Ever (Adverb of Frequency)…?
Is that correct…??
Right!
Thanks…!!
Thrilled to be around, and that we hope to make a friend.
This is my second request:
Please stop posting the same thing in various threads or you will be banned.
I’ve already deleted 2 myself and moved one to ‘New Forum Members’, BN. I think Soattedep’s English is not too good yet.
I’ve deleted about 4 of them, all one after the other in the same thread. He’s just posted another in a new thread.
He may be genuine, with a poor grasp of English, or he may be someone with time on his hands who finds this sort of thing amusing, but if he doesn’t respond to communication, we may be left with no choice but to assume the latter.
Press on, then. I’m gone for a while. Stiff upper, eh wot?
Their old dog has stopped retrieving the daily newspaper.
Is there any adverb in this sentence?
I got adjectives in it which are:-
Their (Possessive Pronoun) , old ,daily
Is daily adjective or adverb?
‘Daily’ is an adjective modifying the noun ‘newspaper’. There are no adverbs.
But I saw in a website that “daily” is one of the adverbs definite (Frequency).
OK, is there an easy way to quickly know the adverbs and recognize them (Degree and Frequency) I searched in Google and typed in “Adverbs of Degree List” and I got a very large list of words:-
almost
absolutely
awfully*
badly*
barely
completely
decidedly
deeply
enough
enormously
entirely
extremely
fairly
far
fully
greatly
hardly
highly
how
incredibly
indeed
intensely
just
least
less
little
lots
most
much
nearly
perfectly
positively
practically
pretty*
purely
quite
rather
really
scarcely
simply
so
somewhat
strongly
terribly*
thoroughly
too
totally
utterly
very
virtually
well
Is there any easy way to recognize them without keeping this full list in mind…??
You must observe what they are modifying in the sentence.
Adjectives modify nouns: ‘It is a daily newspaper.’
Adverbs modify adjectives, verbs, other adverbs and sentences: ‘It is published daily.’ ‘Daily, the mailman brings me the paper.’
Please help me…!!!
Another 10 minutes and my head will explode…!!!
Look at this example…
He told us when he will arrive.
Why is this an Adjective Clause…??
Why not an Adverb Clause…?? As it is about time…!!
I also doubt that this is a Noun Clause, not an Adjective Clause.
Because I can say (when he will arrive) is another object of the verb told.
Answers the question “What did he tell us?” >> He told us when he will arrive.
The subject is: He
The verb is: told
us: is an object
when he will arrive: A Noun Clause acting as an object of the verb “told”.
‘When he will arrive’ is not an adjective clause; it is a noun clause. Its topic is time, but it is an object of ‘tell’. ‘He told us the time of his arrival [= when he will arrive]’.
Is there enough milk?
enough: Is this adverb modifying the noun milk?
or modifying the verb to be “is”…?
And if I say:-
I met my friend yesterday.
What does the adverb of time “yesterday” modify here…?
does it modify a verb as well…?
‘Enough’ is an adjective modifying ‘milk’.
‘yesterday’ is a sentence adverbial.