Definition of "adverbs" []

• Plural form of adverb. (noun)

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• "-- _Compose sentences in which five of these adverbs shall modify adjectives, and five shall modify adverbs_: --"
• "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."
• "My fear, though – and soundly founded on ample evidence – is that the correct use of “- ly” in adverbs is dying a slowly wrought death."