classes ::: English, grammer,
children :::
branches ::: adverbs

bookmarks: Instances - Definitions - Quotes - Chapters - Wordnet - Webgen


object:adverbs
class:English
class:grammer
before
after

see also :::

questions, comments, suggestions/feedback, take-down requests, contribute, etc
contact me @ integralyogin@gmail.com or
join the integral discord server (chatrooms)
if the page you visited was empty, it may be noted and I will try to fill it out. cheers



now begins generated list of local instances, definitions, quotes, instances in chapters, wordnet info if available and instances among weblinks


OBJECT INSTANCES [0] - TOPICS - AUTHORS - BOOKS - CHAPTERS - CLASSES - SEE ALSO - SIMILAR TITLES

TOPICS
all
Always
anew
before
Behind
completely
constantly
continuously
down
downward
easy
Everyday
fully
higher
incessantly
infinitely
inside
lower
most
never
not
now
Only
perfectly
That
up.
upward
usually
what
when
whole-heartedly
whole-heartedly
Why
within
wondrous
SEE ALSO


AUTH

BOOKS

IN CHAPTERS TITLE

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
0.00_-_The_Book_of_Lies_Text
0_1960-10-08
0_1961-05-19
1.04_-_The_Praise
1f.lovecraft_-_Sweet_Ermengarde
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
2.1.7.08_-_Comments_on_Specific_Lines_and_Passages_of_the_Poem
3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
Avatars_of_the_Tortoise
ENNEAD_06.03_-_Plotinos_Own_Sense-Categories.
The_Act_of_Creation_text
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers

PRIMARY CLASS

English
grammer
SIMILAR TITLES
adverbs

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH


TERMS ANYWHERE

fitting ::: 1. Appropriate or proper; suitable. 2. Used with prefixed adverbs to denote an appropriate or inappropriate fit. 3. Of a manufactured article: Of the right measure or size; made to fit, accurate in fit, well or close-fitting. close-fitting, ill-fitting.

orthotone ::: a. --> Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.

parts of speech: A traditional classifying system for words in terms of their function. The main catagories are: Nouns, pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Articles, Prepositions, Conjunctions.

simile: A comparison of two things not usually paired, made by using the adverbslike or as. Similes contrast with metaphors; however, both devices bring out a deeper meaning.

Sometimes, however, the distinction between nominal definitions and real definitions is made on the basis that the latter convey an assertion of existence, of the defimendum, or rather, where the definiendum is a concept, of things falling thereunder (Saccheri, 1697); or the distinction may be made on the basis that real definitions involve the possibility of what is defined (Leibniz, 1684). Ockham makes the distinction rather on the basis that real definitions state the whole nature of a thing and nominal definitions state the meaning of a word or phrase, but adds that non-existents (as chimaera) and such parts of speech as verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions may therefore have only nominal definition. -- A.C.

than ::: conj. --> A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.

WordNet "human language" A large {lexical} database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of {cognitive synonyms} ("synsets"), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-{semantic} and lexical relations. The resulting network of words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is freely available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for {computational linguistics} and {natural language processing}. {WordNet home (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/)}. (2007-04-20)

y- ::: --> Alt. of I-
A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use.




QUOTES [0 / 0 - 75 / 75]


KEYS (10k)


NEW FULL DB (2.4M)

   11 Stephen King
   5 Daniel Handler
   4 Maya Angelou
   3 Henry James
   2 Yann Martel
   2 Carlos Ruiz Zaf n
   2 Anton Chekhov
   2 Anonymous

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
2:I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
3:All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
4:The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
5:All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:Using adverbs is a mortal sin. ~ Elmore Leonard,
2:The words I overuse are all adverbs. ~ Sam Shepard,
3:Adverbs and cops always come in pairs. ~ Gary Reilly,
4:The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~ Stephen King,
5:I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, ~ Stephen King,
6:Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb. ~ Annie Dillard,
7:Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ~ Anton Chekhov,
8:The miracle is the adverbs. The way things are done. ~ Daniel Handler,
9:The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. ~ Daniel Handler,
10:God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well. ~ Joseph Hall,
11:Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt. ~ Henry James,
12:I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. ~ Henry James,
13:Ly” adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer’s intent. ~ Scott Nicholson,
14:There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones. ~ Christopher Owens,
15:Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex. ~ Lev Grossman,
16:STEFANIE HAD WRITTEN A SECTION containing as many adverbs as it did mermaid scales, ~ Rakesh Satyal,
17:I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. ~ Stephen King,
18:I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. ~ Henry James,
19:Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs. ~ A B Guthrie Jr,
20:The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs. ~ Eddie Vedder,
21:Generally, I agree with Stephen King that hope is a dangerous thing. And also that the road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~ Tyler Dilts,
22:Most of the time, if you think of the small details, rather than the bigger picture, you’ll avoid adverbs and clichés naturally. ~ Jessica Bell,
23:All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. ~ Stephen King,
24:It becomes a matter to be put to the test of battle, when someone makes a conjunction of a word which belongs in the bailiwick of the adverbs. ~ Erasmus,
25:Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. ~ Daniel Handler,
26:Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. ~ E B White,
27:Ah! I--to you, Petrovitch, this--" It must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever. ~ Nikolai Gogol,
28:Breathe deep."
"Deeply," I forced out through my tingling mouth.
"What?"
"Deeply. Adverbs follow verbs."
"Seriously? You're giving me a grammar lesson in the middle of your barfing? ~ Rachel Hawthorne,
29:It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe. ~ Daniel Handler,
30:It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe. ~ Daniel Handler,
31:I don’t like plural, because they not stable. I don’t like nouns too, as they change all the time like verbs. I like only adjectives, and adverbs. They don’t change. If I can, I will only speak adjectives and adverbs. ~ Anonymous,
32:The question that arises as we use all these adjectives and adverbs to describe our physicians as we approach a Supreme Court nominee is where are we in America when we decide that it's legal to kill our unborn children? ~ Tom Coburn,
33:Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
34:If you've used adverbs, look at them carefully. Adverbs are the weakest words; verbs are the strongest. Many, many times I've found that I have the wrong verb so I'm attempting to cheat and modify the wrong verb by using an adverb. ~ Chris Offutt,
35:Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n,
36:Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
37:Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: "The King is dead" and "Jesus wept." ~ Bill Moyers,
38:recommend to all storytellers a watchful attitude and a thoughtful, careful choice of adjectives and adverbs, because the bakery shop of English is rich beyond belief, and narrative prose, particularly if it’s going a long distance, needs more muscle than fat. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
39:The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. ~ Maya Angelou,
40:A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction--besides unexpected interludes--has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end. ~ Yann Martel,
41:For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of "Is your novel an open work or not?" How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or "With which of your characters do you identify?" For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously. ~ Umberto Eco,
42:To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. ~ Maya Angelou,
43:I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off. ~ Frederick Buechner,
44:I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him. ~ Stephen King,
45:Hoping is a vague, unsophisticated, and largely uninteresting state of mind. One associates it with children and their feelings about birthday presents and snow days. Compared to the surgical precision of sentence adverbs like presumably, ostensibly, and understandably, hopefully is a bowl of mush. ~ Ben Yagoda,
46:I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them. ~ Mark Twain,
47:I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene. ~ Charles Stross,
48:Both of our memories were deteriorating, and in recent years the effort required to recall a name or incident felt almost wearyingly physical, like clearing out an attic. Proper nouns were particularly elusive. Adverbs and adjectives would go next, until we were left with pronouns and imperative verbs. Eat! Walk! Sleep now! ~ David Nicholls,
49:I have always wanted to be able to express music and love and the things that I have felt in their own proper language – not like this, not like this with the procession of particular English verbs, adjectives, adverbs, nouns and prepositions that rolls before you now towards this full-stop and the coming paragraph of yet more words. ~ Stephen Fry,
50:Nouns can act like adjectives (“chocolate cake”); adjectives can act like nouns (“grammarians are the damned”); verbs can look like verbs (“she’s running down the street”) or adjectives (“a running engine”) or nouns (“her favorite hobby is running”). Adverbs look like everything else; they are the junk drawer of the English language (“like so”). ~ Kory Stamper,
51:During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long ago that a writer who needlessly modifies words is either a nervous writer who does not believe in the worth of what they are writing or a vain writer who wants to be seen as discriminating and sensitive to nuances or meaning. ~ Gerald Murnane,
52:we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are. ~ Tahereh Mafi,
53:All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh. ~ Maya Angelou,
54:During that reading, the top part of my mind is concentrating on story and toolbox concerns: knocking out pronouns with unclear antecedents (I hate and mistrust pronouns, every one of them as slippery as a fly-by-night personal-injury lawyer), adding clarifying phrases where they seem necessary, and of course, deleting all the adverbs I can bear to part with (never all of them; never enough). Underneath, ~ Stephen King,
55:Dreadful fire at Reiver’s Rest,”’ she intoned with relish. ‘“Poor” – it’s Cara, isn’t it, madam? – “Poor Cara tragically lost. Staying in Gatehouse to comfort poor mother.”’ And so on. It became clear that the telegram was not her natural genre, but I managed in the end to remove most of the adverbs and settle on ‘perished’ as an acceptable midway point between her eulogies and my apparently shocking bluntness. ~ Catriona McPherson,
56:Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce. ~ Maya Angelou,
57:I want to make you really happy.”
My heart fluttered. “Really happy?”
He dropped his hands to my outer thighs, his long fingers slipping under the material. “Exceedingly, insanely happy.”
I was breathless. “There you go again with the adverbs.
His hands inched up, causing heat to flood my body. “You love it when I whip out the adverbs.”
“Maybe.”
He trailed his lips in a hot line down my throat. “Let me make you exceedingly, insanely happy, Kat. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
58:I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day... fifty the day after that... and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it's—GASP!!—too late. ~ Stephen King,
59:I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day  . . . . fifty the day after that  . . . . and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s—GASP!!—too late. ~ Stephen King,
60:I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one’s own pleasure, that fear may be mild—timidity is the word I’ve used here. If, however, one is working under deadline—a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample—that fear may be intense. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him. ~ Stephen King,
61:Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously. ~ Anton Chekhov,
62:forming the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, esp. those of more than one syllable: the most important event of my life; sandy plains where fire tends to spread most quickly. 3 extremely; very: it was most kind of you; that is most probably correct. 4 INFORMAL almost: most everyone understood. □ at (the) most not more than: the walk took four minutes at the most. □ be the most INFORMAL be the best of all; be the ultimate. □ for the most part in most cases; usually: the older members, for the most part, shun him. □ make the most of use to the best advantage: ~ Erin McKean,
63:And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still in use today, and old words were employed in ways not tried before. Nouns became verbs and adverbs; adverbs became adjectives. Expressions that could not have grammatically existed before - such as 'breathing one's last' and 'backing a horse', both coined by Shakespeare - were suddenly popping up everywhere. ~ Bill Bryson,
64:And then he has nothing to do. After three weeks-or is it a lifetime?-of ceaseless activity, he has nothing to do. A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction-besides unexpected interludes-has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end. For an hour or so, sitting outside on the landing at the top of the stairs, nursing a coffee, tired, a little relieved, a little worried, he contemplates that full stop. What will the next sentence bring? ~ Yann Martel,
65:You can argue that it expresses a degree of difference between He closed the door and He slammed the door, and you’ll get no argument from me  . . . . but what about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before He closed the door firmly? Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, isn’t firmly an extra word? Isn’t it redundant? Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. ~ Stephen King,
66:a Navajo verb is conjugated not solely according to its subject, but also according to its object. The verb ending depends on which category the object belongs to: long (e.g., pipe, pencil), slender and flexible (e.g., snake, thong), granular (e.g., sugar, salt), bundled (e.g., hay), viscous (e.g., mud, feces) and many others. The verb will also incorporate adverbs, and will reflect whether or not the speaker has experienced what he or she is talking about, or whether it is hearsay. Consequently, a single verb can be equivalent to a whole sentence, making it virtually impossible for foreigners to disentangle its meaning. ~ Simon Singh,
67:Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the question, and I have a duty to provide an honest answer. Yes. It is. You need only look back through some of my own fiction to know that I’m just another ordinary sinner. I’ve been pretty good about avoiding the passive tense, but I’ve spilled out my share of adverbs in my time, including some (it shames me to say it) in dialogue attribution. (I have never fallen so low as “he grated” or “Bill jerked out,” though.) When I do it, it’s usually for the same reason any writer does it: because I am afraid the reader won’t understand me if I don’t. I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. ~ Stephen King,
68:I think I can say without fear of inaccuracy that description is my strong point. Possibly this fact is central to my feeling excluded and so on in what might be called “the scene.” There appears to be a particular divide in literature that has “description” and all it implies, as its focus. Some people hate “fancy writing,” and just want to “cut to the chase,” and so on. This attitude deeply irritates me. If you can’t try and take words to their limit in the field of literature, then where can you? I actually think that variety is good, but it’s usually the enemies of “fancy writing” who also seem to deplore variety and believe that there’s only one way to write—without adverbs etc. etc. ~ Quentin S Crisp,
69:The English language has been thrust upon Americans. And it is wrong. As static and immobile as are the English, just so ever-moving are Americans. Here is a huge country. Not a mere island. Naturally people move. And they need a moving language. A language that can interpret American life. Nouns and adjectives won't express American life. They are too weak, too immobile. But verbs, adverbs, prepositions and the like, ah, they are moving, just as Americans. Obviously we cannot suddenly junk the English language and adopt some other tongue. English is too connotative, too close to us. Our problem is to adapt the English language to American needs. To make it move with us Americans. That is the problem--to write things as they are, not as they seem. our aim must be not to explain things, but to write the thing itself, and thereby in itself be self explanatory. ~ Gertrude Stein,
70:And when you write a poem within the accepted poem-form, making it sound like a poem because a poem is a poem is a poem, you are saying “good morning” in that poem, and well, your morals are straight and you have not said SHIT, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could…instead of sweating out the correct image, the precise phrase, the turn of a thought…simply sit down and write the god damned thing, throwing on the color and sound, shaking us alive with the force, the blackbirds, the wheat fields, the ear in the hand of the whore, sun, sun, sun, SUN!; let’s make poetry the way we make love; let’s make poetry and leave the laws and the rules and the morals to the churches and the politicians; let’s make poetry the way we tilt the head back for the good liquor; let a drunken bum make his flame, and some day, Robert, I’ll think of you, pretty and difficult, measuring vowels and adverbs, making rules instead of poetry. ~ Charles Bukowski,
71:I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and your adverbs because Prof. B. wants you to. What does he know about it? What do you really know about your own wit?

I've been sitting here tearing up notes to you. I keep starting to say things like 'This one is wonderfully constructed,' and 'The conversation between the two cops is terrific.' So I'm hedging. I'm not sure why. I started to get a little nervous right after you began to read. It sounded like the beginning of something your arch-enemy Bob B. calls a rattling good story. Don't you think he would call this a step in the right direction? Doesn't that worry you? Even what is funny about the woman on the back of the truck doesn't sound like something you think is funny. It sounds much more like something that you think is universally considered funny. I feel gypped. Does that make you mad? You can say our relatedness spoils my judgement. It worries me enough. But I'm also just a reader. Are you a writer or just a writer of rattling good stories. I mind getting a rattling good story from you. ~ J D Salinger,
72:I have written various words, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and bits of dismantled sentences, fragments of expressions and descriptions and all kinds of tentative combinations. Every now and again I pick up one these particles, these molecules of texts, hold it up to the light and examine it carefully, turn it in various directions, lean forward and rub or polish it, hold it up to the light again, rub it again slightly, then lean forward and fit it into the texture of the cloth I am weaving. Then I stare at it from different angles, still not entirely satisfied, and take it out again and replace it with another word, or try to fit it into another niche in the same sentence, then remove, file it down a tiny bit more, and try to fit it in again, perhaps at a slightly different angle. Or deploy it differently. Perhaps farther down the sentence. Or at the beginning of the next one. Or should I cut it off and make it into a one-word sentence on its own?
I stand up. Walk around the room. Return to the desk. Stare at it for a few moments or longer, cross out the whole sentence or tear up the whole page. I give up in despair. I curse myself aloud and curse writing in general and the language as a whole, despite which I sit down and start putting the whole thing together all over again. [p.268] ~ Amos Oz,
73:Come then, let us do something!” said Davie.

“Come away,” rejoined Donal. “What shall we do first?”

“I don't know: you must tell me, sir.”

“What would you like best to do—I mean if you might do what you pleased?”

Davie thought a little, then said:

“I should like to write a book.”

“What kind of a book?”

“A beautiful story.”

“Isn’t it just as well to read such a book? Why should you want to write one?”

“Because then I should have it go just as I wanted it! I am always—almost always—disappointed with the thing that comes next. But if I wrote it myself, then I shouldn’t get tired of it; it would be what pleased me, and not what pleased somebody else.”

“Well,” said Donal, after thinking for a moment, “suppose you begin to write a book!”

“Oh, that will be fun!—much better than learning verbs and nouns!”

“But the verbs and nouns are just the things that go to make a story—with not a few adjectives and adverbs, and a host of conjunctions; and, if it be a very moving story, a good many interjections! These all you have got to put together with good choice, or the story will not be one you would care to read.—Perhaps you had better not begin till I see whether you know enough about those verbs and nouns to do the thing decently. ~ George MacDonald,
74:There are several things to listen for when talking with customers. Two important ones are: What specific words (adjectives & adverbs) they use. Let them find the words, and press them to explain more. So when a customer describes something as “big” don’t say: “Oh yeah it IS really big”. Instead, say “Big? What makes it big? Big compared to what? What else did you try that was big?” How often they use them. The more a customer uses a particular word or phrase to describe their struggle or what they want, the closer the association. Even better is when different customers, independently, use the same words. If different customers keep saying that they like to use an air freshener because it reminds them of “home”. Well. You’ve got some great copy ideas to start with. What makes found copy so much better than, say, copy you thought up during a brainstorming session? You are not your customer. You simply cannot describe your customer’s struggle as well as they can. Using the customer’s words to describe their problem back to them will make them feel understood and their brain will jump to: “Yup, that’s exactly what it’s like when I’m in that situation. This product must be close to what I want because they know, exactly, my struggle.” And that’s what we want when we write copy. We want our prospects to see themselves on the page. It may take more words, but those words are more likely to be read because they’re real for your prospect – they’re not just abstracted marketing talk. ~ Anonymous,
75:The Grammarians Funeral
Eight Parts of Speech this Day wear Mourning Gowns
Declin'd Verbs, Pronouns, Participles, Nouns.
And not declined, Adverbs and Conjunctions,
In Lillies Porch they stand to do their functions.
With Preposition; but the most affection
Was still observed in the Interjection.
The Substantive seeming the limbed best,
Would set an hand to bear him to his Rest.
The Adjective with very grief did say,
Hold me by strength, or I shall faint away.
The Clouds of Tears did over-cast their faces,
Yea all were in most lamentable Cases.
The five Declensions did the Work decline,
And Told the Pronoun Tu, The work is thine:
But in this case those have no call to go
That want the Vocative, and can't say O!
The Pronouns said that if the Nouns were there,
There was no need of them, they might them spare:
But for the sake of Emphasis they would,
In their Discretion do what ere they could.
Great honour was confer'd on Conjugations,
They were to follow next to the Relations.
Amo did love him best, and Doceo might
Alledge he was his Glory and Delight.
But Lego said by me he got his skill,
And therefore next the Herse I follow will.
Audio said little, hearing them so hot,
Yet knew by him much Learning he had got.
O Verbs the Active were, Or Passive sure,
Sum to be Neuter could not well endure.
But this was common to them all to Moan
Their load of grief they could not soon Depone.
A doleful Day for Verbs, they look so moody,
They drove Spectators to a Mournful Study.
The Verbs irregular, 'twas thought by some,
Would break no rule, if they were pleas'd to come.
Gaudeo could not be found; fearing disgrace
He had with-drawn, sent Maereo in his Place.
Possum did to the utmost he was able,
17
And bore as Stout as if he'd been A Table.
Volo was willing, Nolo some-what stout,
But Malo rather chose, not to stand out.
Possum and Volo wish'd all might afford
Their help, but had not an Imperative Word.
Edo from Service would by no means Swerve,
Rather than fail, he thought the Cakes to Serve.
Fio was taken in a fit, and said,
By him a Mournful POEM should be made.
Fero was willing for to bear a part,
Altho' he did it with an aking heart.
Feror excus'd, with grief he was so Torn,
He could not bear, he needed to be born.
Such Nouns and Verbs as we defective find,
No Grammar Rule did their attendance bind.
They were excepted, and exempted hence,
But Supines, all did blame for negligence.
Verbs Offspring, Participles hand-in-hand,
Follow, and by the same direction stand:
The rest Promiscuously did croud and cumber,
Such Multitudes of each, they wanted Number.
Next to the Corpse to make th' attendance even,
Jove, Mercury, Apollo came from heaven.
And Virgil, Cato, gods, men, Rivers, Winds,
With Elegies, Tears, Sighs, came in their kinds.
Ovid from Pontus hast's Apparrell'd thus,
In Exile-weeds bringing De Tristibus:
And Homer sure had been among the Rout,
But that the Stories say his Eyes were out.
Queens, Cities, Countries, Islands, Come
All Trees, Birds, Fishes, and each Word in Um.
What Syntax here can you expect to find?
Where each one bears such discomposed mind.
Figures of Diction and Construction,
Do little: Yet stand sadly looking on.
That such a Train may in their motion chord,
Prosodia gives the measure Word for Word.
18
~ Benjamin Tompson,

IN CHAPTERS [3/3]



   1 Thelema
   1 Occultism
   1 Buddhism






0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
    Time and Space are adverbs.
    Duality begat the Conjunction.

1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  would be heavy, littered with adverbs such as "completely,"
  "entirely," "perfectly," and so on. These modifiers abound in

3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  number of pronouns, adverbs, suffixes, affixes, conjunctions and
  prepositions are descended in the Aryan languages.
  --
  evident from the adverbs formed from it - Sanscrit n;, Greek nu,
  Latin num, nunc. Hence nv, in the sense of new, lit. "belonging
  --
  are liberally used to define other pronouns and adverbs, eg
  ;HHa<, HHa<, etc. We have similarly in Sanscrit aym^,
  --
  only as emphatic adverbs, prepositions or conjunctions. We find
  similarly a, i, u used by themselves as emphatic particles, or

WORDNET



--- Overview of noun adverb

The noun adverb has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (3) adverb ::: (the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses)
2. adverb ::: (a word that modifies something other than a noun)


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adverb

2 senses of adverb                          

Sense 1
adverb
   => major form class
     => part of speech, form class, word class
       => grammatical category, syntactic category
         => class, category, family
           => collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
             => group, grouping
               => abstraction, abstract entity
                 => entity

Sense 2
adverb
   => modifier, qualifier
     => content word, open-class word
       => word
         => language unit, linguistic unit
           => part, portion, component part, component, constituent
             => relation
               => abstraction, abstract entity
                 => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun adverb

1 of 2 senses of adverb                        

Sense 2
adverb
   => positive, positive degree
   => comparative, comparative degree
   => superlative, superlative degree
   => adverbial


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adverb

2 senses of adverb                          

Sense 1
adverb
   => major form class

Sense 2
adverb
   => modifier, qualifier




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun adverb

2 senses of adverb                          

Sense 1
adverb
  -> major form class
   => noun
   => verb
   => adjective
   => adverb

Sense 2
adverb
  -> modifier, qualifier
   => intensifier, intensive
   => adjective
   => adverb
   => dangling modifier, misplaced modifier




--- Grep of noun adverb
adverb
adverbial



IN WEBGEN [10000/32]

Wikipedia - Adverbial genitive
Wikipedia - Adverbial phrase
Wikipedia - Adverb phrase
Wikipedia - Adverbs (novel) -- Novel by Daniel Handler
Wikipedia - Adverbs
Wikipedia - Adverb -- Class of words
Wikipedia - Conjunctive adverb
Wikipedia - Flat adverb
Wikipedia - Locative adverb
Wikipedia - Prepositional adverb
Wikipedia - Pronominal adverb
Wikipedia - Temporal clause (Latin) -- Latin adverbial clause of time
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39005228-death-by-adverb
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79129.Adverbs
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/AdverblyAdjectiveNoun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdverblyAdjectiveNoun
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/AdVerbum
https://analytical.fandom.com/wiki/Adverb
https://analytical.fandom.com/wiki/Adverbial_clause
https://analytical.fandom.com/wiki/Adverbializer
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Adverb
Adverb
Adverbial case
Adverbial clause
Adverbial genitive
Adverbial phrase
Arte de la lengua mexicana con la declaracin de los adverbios della
Conjunctive adverb
Locative adverb
Prepositional adverb
Pronominal adverb
Special Esperanto adverbs



convenience portal:
recent: Section Maps - index table - favorites
Savitri -- Savitri extended toc
Savitri Section Map -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
authors -- Crowley - Peterson - Borges - Wilber - Teresa - Aurobindo - Ramakrishna - Maharshi - Mother
places -- Garden - Inf. Art Gallery - Inf. Building - Inf. Library - Labyrinth - Library - School - Temple - Tower - Tower of MEM
powers -- Aspiration - Beauty - Concentration - Effort - Faith - Force - Grace - inspiration - Presence - Purity - Sincerity - surrender
difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - study
subjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
6.01 books -- KC - ABA - Null - Savitri - SA O TAOC - SICP - The Gospel of SRK - TIC - The Library of Babel - TLD - TSOY - TTYODAS - TSZ - WOTM II
8 unsorted / add here -- Always - Everyday - Verbs


change css options:
change font "color":
change "background-color":
change "font-family":
change "padding":
change "table font size":
last updated: 2022-05-07 11:40:13
108094 site hits