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[Footnote 2: _Drunken_ is an adjective.]
CAUTION.--Do not confuse the preterite with the past participle. Always
use the past participle form in the compound tenses.
ADVERBS
+71. Classes of Adverbs.+--Adverbs vary much as to their use and meaning.
It is therefore impossible to make a very accurate classification, but we
may divide them, according to use, into _limiting, interrogative_, and
_conjunctive_ adverbs.
_Limiting_ adverbs modify the meaning of verbs, etc.: [He rows _well_].
_Interrogative_ adverbs are used to ask questions: [_When_ shall you come?
He asked _where_ we were going (indirect question)].
_Conjunctive_ adverbs introduce clauses: [We went to the seashore, _where_
we stayed a month]. Here _where_ is used as a connective and also as a
modifier of _stayed_.
Conjunctive adverbs introduce the following kinds of clauses:
1. Adverbial clauses: [Go _where_ duty calls].
2. Adjective clauses: [This is the very spot _where_ I put them].
3. Noun clause: [I do not know _how_ he will succeed].
Adverbs may also be classified, according to meaning, into adverbs of
_manner, time, place_, and _degree_. The classification is not, however, a
rigid one.
Adverbs of _manner_ answer the question How? Most of these terminate in
_-ly_. A few, however, are identical in form with adjectives of like
meaning: [She sang very loud].
Adverbs of _time_ answer the question When?
Adverbs of _place_ answer the question Where? This class, together with
the preceding two classes, usually modify verbs.
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