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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...used (a) with a verb to show manner, time, place, cause, or repetition; or (b) to modify the force of a clause. Adverbs are also used (c) with adjectives or adverbs to show degree. A. You cannot better be employed than to lie still. Signior Antonio, many-a-time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me. It is not so expressed. b. Perhaps I will return immediately. It is not so expressed. I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh. c. Very like a whale. He is little worse than a man. They feared very greatly. 269. Adverbs are used to answer (or ask) how? when? where? why? or how many times? or to modify the force of a clause. 270. Adverbs are of Manner, generally showing how? (with verbs). Degree, generally showing how? (with adjectives or adverbs). Time, generally showing when? Place, generally showing where? whither? whence? Repetition, generally showing how many times? Cause, generally showing why? Modification, modifying the force of a clause; i.e. adding emphasis, expressing uncertainty, making a clause negative, &c. An adverb, belonging to any of the above classes, employed to make a sentence interrogative, is called an interrogative adverb. Yes, yea, no, nay, used in answering questions, are usually called adverbs, though they stand quite alone, and in that respect resemble interjections. See 301. 271. Examples. Manner: How, well, badly, quickly, clearly, properly, sincerely, &c. Degree: How, very, exceedingly, too, over = too, so, as = equally, &c. Time: When, then, now, never, to-day, to-morrow, formerly, first, last, &c. Place: Where, whither, whence, there, thence, thither, here, nowhere, anywhere, &c. Repetition: How many times, how often, occasionally, again, now and then, sometimes, once, twice, three times, yearly, &c. Cause: ...
