Adverbs and prepositions can be easily differentiated from each other in regular course as they serve entirely different roles in a sentence. But when the same word is used as an adverb and a preposition – of course in different…
Conjunctive adverbs, also called adverbial conjunctions, build logical connection between two independent clauses or sentences. Example: If you’ve too many friends, you can’t find time to build deeper bonds with most of them. Therefore, have few but good friends. Here,…
Consider these sentences: Several infrastructure projects have been launched in the city. However, nothing much seems to have changed here. Several infrastructure projects have been launched in the city. Nothing much, however, seems to have changed here. Several infrastructure projects…
There is little problem with the above question. Just because many adjectives can be converted to adverbs by adding -ly to them doesn’t mean adjectives have adverb forms. They’re different parts of speech, and not forms of each other. That’s…
You’d have heard multiple terminology on adverb: adverb, conjunctive adverb, comment adverb, and sentence adverb. This post attempts to put them side by side and clarify the difference between them. Before we dive into the topic, here is a pictorial…
In this post, we’ll cover adjective, one of the parts of speech, comprehensively. What’s an adjective? What difference do you notice in these two sentences? The flowers survived the weather. The yellow flowers survived the wintry weather. The second sentence…
Adjectives and adverbs are the only two parts of speech that can modify (or describe) other parts of speech. The two are sometimes confused with each other. For one, both are modifiers. Second, many words can be adjective as well…
We’ve all seen an adjective describing (or modifying) a noun, like in this sentence. His blue shirt doesn’t go with the occasion. What if we want to describe a noun with two or more adjectives? In such case, multiple adjectives…
Let’s look at brief context before we dive into out-of-order adjectives. In a sentence, adjectives can be used attributively or predicatively: I own a blue car. [Attributive adjective] My car is blue. [Predicative adjective] In case of attributive adjective, the…
You may have read or written sentences like these. The brave will win the battle. To travel around the world has been my deep desire. The underlined parts – an adjective and an infinitive phrase, respectively – are not identified…
Adverbial is an umbrella term for words, phrases, and clauses functioning as an adverb. Learn more about adverbials: This post contains example sentences of adverbials divided into four categories, fourth of which contains mix of adverbial words, adverbial phrases, and…
Adjectival is an umbrella term for words, phrases, and clauses functioning as an adjective. Learn more about adjectivals: This post contains example sentences of adjectivals divided into four categories, fourth of which contains mix of adjectival words, adjectival phrases, and…
