nnily enough, incredibly, ironically, oddly, remarkably, strangely, unexpectedly, typically, (un) fortunately, (un) happlly, (un) luckily, preferably, tragically, significantly, (in) correctly, (un) justly, cleverly, foolishly, reasonably, sensibly, etc..g. He is wisely staying at home tonight.we were extremely annoyed when we received the letter.
) conjunctive adverbs: flrst (ly), secondly, next, then, finally, lastly, further, furthermore, too, above all, likewise, similarly, incidentally, by the way, thus, therefore, namely, for example, that is, accordingly, consequently, hence, so, as a result, otherwise, in other words, in that case, rather, alternatively, on the one (other) hand, instead, on the contrary, anyhow, anyway, besides, however, nevertheless, still, though, yet, at any rale, for all that, in spite of that, meantime, meanwhile, etc..g. I d like you to do two things for me. First, phone the office and tell them I ll be late. Secondly, order a taxi to be here in about half an hour.didn t like the food there. However, I didn t complain about it.
) formulaic adverbs (markers of courtesy): kindly, cordially, please, etc..g. Will you kindly help me with the parcel? Cordially invite you to our party.me have a look at the picture, please.adverbs when, where, how and why belonging to different semantic groups mentioned above have one point in common-they serve to form questions and introduce some kinds of subordinate clauses. In the former case, owing to their auxiliary function, they are called interrogative adverbs (a). In the latter case, also owing to their auxiliary function, they are called conjunctive adverbs (b). In both cases they perform different adverbial functions in the sentence..g. a) When did you see him last? (adverbial modifier of time) are you going? (adverbial modifier of place) did you manage it? (adverbial modifier of manner) did not you tell me about it? (adverbial modifier of cause) .g. b) Sunday was the day when he was least busy, (adverbial modifier of lime) thing to find out was where he was then, (adverbial modifier of place) it was done remains a mystery to me, (adverbial modifier of manner) wanted to know why he had left us so abruptly. (adverbial modifier of cause) is seen from the above examples, the conjunctive adverbs can introduce attributive, predicative, subject and object clauses. [11, 346] adverb how, in addition to the above functions, can also be placed at the head of an exclamatory sentence. In this case it is often followed by an adjective or an adverb but it may also be used alone. This how is sometimes called the exclamatory how..g. How unfair grown-ups are! Oh, how the baby cries! Is one more classification of adverbs according to their meaning.are commonly divided into qualitative, quantitative and circumstantial.qualitative such adverbs are meant as express immediate, inherently non-graded qualities of actions and other qualities. The typical adverbs of this kind are qualitative adverbs in -ly..g. The little boy was crying bitterly over his broken toy.plainly embarrassed Department of Industry confirmed the fact of the controversial deal.adverbs interpreted as quantitative include words of degree. These are specific lexical units of semi-functional nature expressing quality measure, or gradational evaluation of qualities. They may be subdivided into several very clearly pronounced sets.first set is formed by adverbs of high degree. These adverbs are sometimes classed as intensifiers raquo ;: very, quite, entirely, utterly, highly, greatly, perfectly, absolutely, strongly, considerably, pretty, much. The second set includes adverbs of excessive degree (direct and reverse) also belonging to the broader subclass of intensifiers: too, awfully, tremendously, dreadfully, terrifically. The third set is made up of adverbs of unexpected degree: surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly. The fourth set is formed by adverbs of moderate degree: fairly, comparatively, relatively, moderately, rather. The fifth set includes adverbs of low degree: slightly, a little, a bit. The sixth set is constituted by adverbs of approximate degree: almost, nearly. The seventh set includes adverbs of optimal degree: enough, sufficiently, adequately. The eighth set is formed by adverbs of inadequate degree: insufficiently, intolerably, unbearably, ridiculoulsy. The ninth set is made up of adverbs of under-degree: hardly, scarcely.we see, the degree adverbs, though usually described under the heading of quantitative raquo ;, in reality constitute a specific variety of qualitative words, or rather some sort of intermediate qualitative-quantitative words, in so far as they are used as quality evaluators. In this function they are distinctly different from quantitative adverbs which are directly related to numerals and thereby form sets of words of pronominal order. Such are numerical-pron...
