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Synonyms and antonyms of Types and forms of adverbs in British Thesaurus
Types and forms of adverbs
adverb (noun)
a word that gives extra information about a verb, adjective, adverb, clause, or sentence. Many adverbs are formed by adding ‘-ly’ to an adjective, for example ‘quickly’, ‘mainly’, ‘immediately’, and ‘fortunately’. Words such as ‘very’, ‘only’, ‘often’, ‘of course’ and ‘back’ are also adverbs.
adverbial (adjective)
relating to or containing an adverb
comparative (adjective)
linguistics the comparative form of an adjective or adverb is the form that shows that someone or something has more of a quality than they previously had or more of it than someone or something else has. For example, ‘newer’ is the comparative form of the adjective ‘new’ and ‘more actively’ is the comparative form of the adverb ‘actively’.
comparative (noun)
the form of an adjective or adverb that shows that someone or something has more of a quality than they previously had or more of it than someone or something else has
flat adverb (noun)
an adverb such as ‘quick’, ‘slow’, ‘wrong’, or ‘different’ which has the same form as its associated adjective. For example in the sentences ‘Take it easy’, ‘Tell me straight’, ‘Don’t drive so fast!’, and ‘Some people may think different’, ‘easy’, ‘straight, ‘fast’, and ‘different’ are flat adverbs. Some flat adverbs such as ‘easy’, 'different’, ‘quick’, ‘slow’, and ‘wrong’ have a more usual form ending in ‘ly’ as in ‘easily’, ‘differently’ ‘quickly’, ‘slowly’, and ‘wrongly’.
manner adverb (noun)
an adverb that shows how someone does something or how something happens. For example in the sentences 'Drive carefully', 'He talks too fast', 'The moon shone brightly', and 'I accidentally deleted the file', 'carefully', 'fast', 'brightly' and 'accidentally' are manner adverbs.
particle (noun)
linguistics an adverb or preposition used with a verb to form a phrasal verb. For example in the sentence ‘He quickly put on his clothes’, ‘on’ is a particle.
sentence adverb (noun)
an adverb that affects the meaning of a whole sentence, for example ‘fortunately’ in the sentence ‘Fortunately, no one was injured.’ or ‘economically’ in the sentence ‘This could be disastrous for the country economically.’
superlative (adjective)
linguistics a superlative adjective or adverb is one that expresses the greatest degree of a particular quality. For example the superlative form of ‘happy’ is ‘happiest’.
the superlative (noun)
linguistics the superlative form of an adjective or an adverb