adverbs

-- _Compose sentences in which five of these adverbs shall modify adjectives, and five shall modify adverbs_: --

Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

Among its refinements may be ranked those procedures by which verbs and nouns have been so modified and contracted as to form what we call adverbs, distributives, conjunctions, and prepositions; for I presume it will be readily conceded, that conciseness, as well as copiousness and perspicuity in language, is the offspring of refinement.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

My fear, though – and soundly founded on ample evidence – is that the correct use of “- ly” in adverbs is dying a slowly wrought death.

Slow down a second « Motivated Grammar 2009

In most cases in English, adverbs and adjectives should immediately precede the word they modify, with the freedom to change the arrangement when a prepositional phrase or long series of modifiers causes a lack of clarity.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake] 2009

Well, the secret of sentential adverbs is simply that there’s nothing wrong with them either.

The open secret of sentential adverbs « Motivated Grammar 2010

Well, the secret of sentential adverbs is simply that there’s nothing wrong with them either.

2010 March « Motivated Grammar 2010

Prepositions are sometimes erroneously called adverbs, when their nouns are understood.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

They are called adverbs, which means to a verb, that is, added to a verb.

Our Own Primary Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Charles Winslow 1861

In other words, Mrs. Norris, although luckless in the matter of "adverbs," memory contests, and backgammon tourneys, has established charades.

Tutors' Lane 1937

Such has been their effect on the Queen's English that it is rumored that the next edition of Wren and Martin's grammar book will have a chapter right after "adverbs" called "ad-adjectives" to denote the new parts of speech created by pre-fixing a corporate sponsor's name before a noun.

Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind 2009