Pen Ultimate / Semantic antics Ha'aretz But when the word "just" functions as an adverb, it conveys two messages: One is that something was only uttered, as opposed to having been done, ...
High-strung Sacramento News & Review High rears up all over the place as a noun, adverb and adjective. As an adjective, though, it's hard to imagine a word—even high's antonym, ...
Review: 30 Rock - Sun Tea TV Squad (blog) Dr. Spaceman "You know there's an old African adverb that I made up..." - Al Gore "Recycle everything, including jokes." - Al Gore, recycling a joke from ...
Why 'airlines'? Malaysia Star The word should be “satisfactorily” because it is an adverb and an adverb is needed to modify the verb “has completed”. “Satisfactory” is an adjective.
Sarah Palin Tells Rush Limbaugh the Magic Word Huffington Post (blog) But he warned that the adverb promised to coalesce with the pronoun so completely as to obliterate all sense of its distinct existence, even as a false noun ...
Suss out Spence The Australian ... bears a resemblance to Ireland's pre-euro unit of currency, the punt, and deployed it liberally as a noun, adjective, adverb all over Henry's entry. ...
TalkBack for Nov. 15 Aiken Standard (subscription) My pet peeve, though, is the use of the word "healthy" as an adverb (for example, "eat healthy"). "Healthy" is an adjective. You may eat a healthy diet, ...