Adverbs

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  • Semantic test:
    • Adverbs refer to the manner, location, time or frequency of an action
  • morphological test:
    • adding the suffix -ly to adjectives but not always (e.g. fast - fast);
  • syntactic test
    • Adverbs can occur in the following diagnostic environment: Pat treats Chris very __