down upon the ground. [3, p. 167], Spanker s troubles is over anyway. [3, p. 21] of adverbs formed by the characteristic adverbial prefix a- are the following: .g. They yes swallowed m alive. [3, p. 13] that was left him to do was to keep his long rope taut and his flanks ahead of the teeth of his mates. [3, p. 123] men toiled without speech across the face of the frozen world. [3, p. 17]
It s no use, Mr Scott, you can t break m apart that way, Matt said at last. [3, p. 188] there was life, abroad in the land and defiant. [3, p. 5] got out of his way when he became along. [3, p. 131] we can see that there are many derived adverbs in the novel White Fang, formed by means of different suffixes productive and non-productive and by adding prefix a-.observe examples of compound adverbs which are formed of two stems.is a group of adverbs formed by combining the pronouns some, any, every and no with a limited number of nouns or pronominal adverbs..g. It was to rear, somewhere in the snow expanse they had just traversed. [3, p.8] don t feel right, somehow. [3, p.12], on the other hand, being the fastest-footed, was afraid to venture anywhere. [3, p. 118] White Fang was here, there, and everywhere, always evading and eluding, and always leaping in and splashing with his fangs and leaping out again in time to escape punishment. [3, p. 173] also there are other compound adverbs:
E.g. Thereafter they spoke no more, though their ears were keen for the hunting-cries that continued to rise behind them. [3, p. 8] White Fang, in manner somewhat similar, lured Lip-lip into Kiche s avenging jaws. [3, p. 107], the sled was of some service, for it carried nearly two hundred pounds of outfit and food. [3, p. 127] he ventured away from his mother, the bully was sure to appear, trailing at his heels, snarling at him, picking upon him, and watchful of an opportunity, when no man-animal was near, to spring upon him and force a fight. [3, p.106] the adverbs we can distinguish such type of adverbs as composite phrasal adverbs which consist of two or more word-forms.
E.g. In short, Beauty Smith was a monstrosity, and the blame of it lay elsewhere. [3, p. 163]
At first, the killing of the white men s dogs had been a diversion. [3, p. 158]
He sat for a long while upon the sled. [3, p. 31]
And in the meanwhile, the she-wolf, the cause of it all, sat down contentedly on her haunches and watched. [3, p.45]
A special point of linguistic interest is presented by the development of merged or separable adverbs. The term merged is meant here to bring out the fact that such separable compounds are lexically and grammatically indivisible and form a single idea.in their structure, examples of such separable compounds may be classified as follows:
preposition + noun:
E.g. The other end of the stick, in turn, was made fast to a stake in the ground by means of a leather thong. [3, p. 18] at the tree, he studied the surrounding forest in order to fell the tree in the direction of the most firewood. [3, p. 36]) noun + preposition + nounand all, from time to time, they felt his teeth; and to his credit, he gave more than he received. [3, p. 115] by two, male and female, the wolves were deserting. [3, p. 45] men slept, breathing heavily, side by side, under the one covering.
[3, p. 12] after cry, and answering cries, were turning the silence into a bedlam. [3, p. 10] came out of a thicket and found himself face to face with the slow-witted bird. [3, p. 58]
preposition + substantivized adjective:
At last Grey Beaver withheld his hand. [3, p. 111] man waited in vain for them to go. [3, p. 35]
preposition + verbal noun
They remained in a circle about him and his fire, displaying an arrogance of possession that shook his courage born of the morning light. [3, p. 35]
preposition + numeral
At first this caused trouble for the other dogs. [3, p. 151] once White Fang did not make an immediate attack. [3, p. 179]
coordinative adverbs:
White Fang darted in and out unscathed, while Cherokee s wounds increased. [3, p. 181]) preposition + pronounreason was unseated by the blind yearning of the fresh to exist and move, at all hazards to move, to continue to move, for movement was the expression of its existence. [3, p. 183], in all his fighting, had this thing happened. [3, p. 184] to their meaning, adverbs fall into the following groups:
) adverbs of time: of time may be subdivided as follows: time prese...
