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START / NODE 671Present-Day English15th century–today
adverb
A grammatical class commonly modifying verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, phrases, clauses, or sentences; the English term continues Latin adverbium.
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Present-Day Englishadverb
a word class modifying verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses, or sentences
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Middle English · Middle English, 15th centuryadverbeadverb
- SOUND CHANGE
- English adverb regularizes the Middle English final vowel while retaining the learned compound.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The grammatical class remains a modifier category whose actual scope is wider than verbs alone.
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- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- First known use is reported in the fifteenth century.
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