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adverb

noun
🔊/ˈædvɜːb/
🔊/ˈædvɜːrb/
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  1. a word that adds more information about place, time, manner, cause or degree to a verb, an adjective, a phrase or another adverb副词
    • In ‘speak kindly’, ‘incredibly deep’, ‘just in time’ and ‘too quickly’, ‘kindly’, ‘incredibly’, ‘just’ and ‘too’ are all adverbs.在 speak kindly、incredibly deep、just in time 和 too quickly 四个短语中，kindly、incredibly、just 和 too 都是副词。🔊🔊
    see also sentence adverbTopics Languagea1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • interrogative
    • sentence
    adverb
    • modify something
    • qualify something
    phrases
    • an adverb of degree
    • an adverb of manner
    • an adverb of place
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin adverbium, from ad- ‘to’ (expressing addition) + verbum ‘word, verb’.