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Quotes About Adverb

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence
~ Adrienne Rich
The young see things in black and white while the favorite adverb of the aged is "perhaps.
~ Ralph McInerny
Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
~ Alice Oswald
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
~ Eleanor Catton
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
~ Edward St Aubyn
Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.
~ Jodi Picoult
was picking my son up at the prison gates when I spotted the mother of the girl he had murdered. Two independent clauses, ten words each, joined by an adverb, made up entirely of words that would once have been unimaginable to think, much less say.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard