3-4. other phrase constituent: adjective/adverb modifier
3-4-1. adverb phrase as adjective/adverb modifier
- Descriptions
- An adverb phrase modifies an adjective or another adverb when it provides more information about the adjective or adverb.
- Commonly modifying the degree, intensity, or manner of the adjective/adverb.
- They can often be a single word (e.g quite unsure, extremely unhelpful) but may extend to more than one (e.g a little dissappointed, not entirely sure).
- Adverbs can be observed commonly ending with -ly.
- They cannot exist on their own (independently) due to being depedent (non-clausal) phrases.
- Tag
rb+jjrbmod
is tagged on the adverb of modifying adjective/adverb phrase.
- Examples
- That cat was suprisingly fat.
- We will see those impacts fairly quickly.
- Depite the captain's best efforts, the team was not entirely sure about the plan.
- The boy was fairly certain that it would rain due to the heavy smell in the air.
- Discussions
- We did NOT tag the prespotitional phrase working as an adverbial phrase.
- …ran all over every hill and down every valley
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