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Function of adverbs
Adverbs are words or phrases of invariable form which modify the meaning of words, phrases or whole sentences:
- Il est entré dans un monde étrangement silencieux
He entered a strangely silent world
(étrangement modifies just silencieux; it is the silence which is strange, not the person or the world he enters)
- J'ai entendu un bruit dehors
I heard a noise outside
(dehors modifies just entendre un bruit; it indicates where the noise was, not where the person hearing it was)
- Soudain j'ai entendu un bruit
Suddenly I heard a noise
(soudain modifies the sentence and expresses the suddenness of the whole event)
With the completion of this lesson, consider investigating these related pages: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Auxiliaries & Combinations of adjectives.
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- "C'est" or "Ce sont"
- Plural forms of adjectives — Adjectives which end in al
- Adverbs ending in —(é)ment derived from past participles
- Subject verb agreement
- Location of adverbs modifying verb phrases
- Pronominal verbs used reciprocally
- Mass nouns used countably
- Reflexive pronouns
- Non agreement of direct object numerals with coûter, peser and mesurer
- Adjectives which normally occur before the noun
- French Ditransitive verbs
- Proper Nouns
- Punctuation
- How to Use Be
- How to use « il s'agit de » in French