ENG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Prescription, Adjective
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Adverbs are similar to adjectives in three ways. That is, if you remove an adverb from a sentence, you"ll still normally have a grammatical sentence. In the following examples, both extremely and quickly are adverbs, and they can both disappear from the sentence without making it ungrammatical. The dog ran through the field extremely quickly. In the following examples, big is an attributive adjective that can be removed without causing the sentence to become ungrammatical. Note, however, that when big (or any adjective) appears in predicative position, it"s no longer optional. The dog that ran through the field is big. *the dog that ran through the field is. The second way in which adverbs resemble attributive adjectives is that they modify another word or group of words. That means they occur in a phrase (constituent) that"s headed by another word. An attributive adjective normally modifies a noun, which means it occurs inside a noun phrase (np).
