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sentence adverbs

sentence adverbs is the plural of sentence adverb.

Meaning of sentence adverb

Noun

sentence adverb (plural sentence adverbs)

  1. An adverb that modifies an entire clause or sentence rather than a single word or phrase.
    • In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156

Questions about sentence adverbs

What is sentence adverbs the plural of?
Sentence adverbs is the plural of sentence adverb.

Words near sentence adverbs in the dictionary

  1. sentegraphs
  2. Sentell
  3. Sentells
  4. sentence
  5. sentence adverb
  6. sentence adverbs
  7. sentence case
  8. sentence connective
  9. sentence connectives
  10. sentence element
  11. sentence elements

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