[B-Greek] Adverb with no verbal element

Terry and Gail Cook cookie99 at fuse.net
Fri Jul 3 16:40:38 EDT 2009


I think the point is that an adverb does not ALWAYS modify a verb. They may 
modify an adjective as in Gail is a very popular girl. Many very important 
people came. Adverbs may at times modify other adverbs as in the fans 
shouted rather loudly or baseball is almost always played in warm weather. 
Adverbs may also modify a substantive as in the Jerusalem above is free.
Terry Cook
sDg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mitch Larramore" <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 9:01 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Adverb with no verbal element


>
> The following explanation for diagramming sentences (per Grassmick) seems 
> like a mistake. Here is how it reads: (He is defining what his 
> "left-slant' terrace means.)
>
> "Left-slant terrace: holds modifiers containing no verbal element (e.g. 
> adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, genitive, dative, and 
> accusative noun modifiers)"
>
> The second e.g. (adverbs) is what seems wrong to me. How can it be said of 
> an adverb that it contains 'no verbal element'? Or, are there some adverbs 
> that do not contain a verbal element?
>
> Mitch Larramore
> Sugar Land, Texas
>
>
>
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
> B-Greek mailing list
> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek
> 




More information about the B-Greek mailing list