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Meaning of "sentence adverb" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SENTENCE ADVERB

sentence adverb  [ˈsentəns ˈædˌvɜːb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SENTENCE ADVERB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sentence adverb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SENTENCE ADVERB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Disjunct (linguistics)

In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, "expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking." A specific type of disjunct is the sentence adverb, which modifies a sentence, or a clause within a sentence, to convey the mood, attitude or sentiments of the speaker, rather than an adverb modifying a verb, an adjective or another adverb within a sentence. More generally, the term disjunct can be used to refer to any sentence element that is not fully integrated into the clausal structure of the sentence. Such elements usually appear peripherally and are set off from the rest of the sentence by a comma and a pause.

Definition of sentence adverb in the English dictionary

The definition of sentence adverb in the dictionary is adverbs such as `fortunately' and `perhaps' which apply to the whole clause, rather than to part of it, are sometimes called sentence adverbs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SENTENCE ADVERB


acerb
əˈsɜːb
adverb
ˈædˌvɜːb
blurb
blɜːb
burb
bɜːb
curb
kɜːb
disturb
dɪˈstɜːb
herb
hɜːb
kerb
kɜːb
Loeb
lɜːb
perturb
pəˈtɜːb
preverb
ˈpriːvɜːb
proverb
ˈprɒvɜːb
refurb
ˈriːˌfɜːb
reverb
ˈriːvɜːb
Serb
sɜːb
suburb
ˈsʌbɜːb
superb
sʊˈpɜːb
urb
ɜːb
verb
vɜːb
willowherb
ˈwɪləʊˌhɜːb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SENTENCE ADVERB

sent
sente
sentence
sentence connector
sentence stress
sentence structure
sentence substitute
sentencer
sentencing circle
sententia
sentential
sentential calculus
sentential function
sententially
sententious
sententiously
sententiousness
senti
sentience
sentiency

WORDS THAT END LIKE SENTENCE ADVERB

absorb
adsorb
auxiliary verb
barb
bicarb
carb
cowherb
Croato-Serb
garb
garden suburb
hairy willowherb
high-carb
linking verb
orb
phrasal verb
potherb
reflexive verb
rhubarb
rosebay willowherb
weak verb

Synonyms and antonyms of sentence adverb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sentence adverb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SENTENCE ADVERB

Find out the translation of sentence adverb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sentence adverb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sentence adverb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

副词的句子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

frase adverbio
570 millions of speakers

English

sentence adverb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वाक्य क्रिया विशेषण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ظرف الجملة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приговор наречие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

frase advérbio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাক্য সম্পাদনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phrase adverbe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata keterangan hukuman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Satz adverb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

文副詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문장 부사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ukara ukara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

câu trạng từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தண்டனை அடையாளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाक्य क्रियाविशेषण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cümle zarfi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

frase avverbio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zdanie przysłówek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вирок наріччя
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adverb frază
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρόταση επίρρημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vonnis bywoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meningen adverb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

setning adverb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sentence adverb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTENCE ADVERB»

The term «sentence adverb» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.562 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTENCE ADVERB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sentence adverb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SENTENCE ADVERB»

Discover the use of sentence adverb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sentence adverb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Optimizing Adverb Positions
Varying the focus of a sentence adverb thus does not affect the propositional meaning of the clause; instead, it has an impact on whether or not a certain utterance is appropriate in a given context (cf. Lang 1979). In other words, the adverb ...
Eva Engels, 2012
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
A sentence adverb does not resolve itself into the form in a manner, as most adverbs do. Thus, in Happily, the bill did not go beyond the committee, the introductory adverb happily conveys the writer's opinion on the message being imparted.
Bryan A. Garner, 2000
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The Processing of Tense: Psycholinguistic Studies on the ...
In the second study, the critical sentence contained either a preposed temporal adverbial or a preposed sentence adverb (Jackendoff, 1972), such as "as usual." Again, the temporal adverb overrode the incongruity effect for the discontinuous ...
M.W. Dickey, 2001
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Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
sufficient historical record, the manner-adverb function precedes the sentence- adverb function and the development of the latter is associated with a leftward movement into clause-initial position. The canonical position for sentence adverbs in ...
Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein, 2000
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Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances
The ambiguity of "He is happily occupied" can easily be explained in structural terms, if one accepts the syntactic reality of the distinction between sentence adverb and constituent adverb. We could say, for example, that in one case the adverb ...
François Récanati, 1987
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Semantics : A Reader: A Reader
The semantic difference can be explained only on the assumption that frequently is capable of modifying the sentence Someone got drunk, and hence is a sentence adverb.12 By a simple universal or existential sentence, we mean one  ...
Steven Davis Professor of Philosophy and and Director of the Centre on Values andf Ethics Carleton University, Brendan S. Gillon Associate Professor of Linguistics McGill University, 2004
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Grammar By Diagram, second edition: Understanding English ...
This chapter will first examine adverb clauses and relative clauses and then move on to a brief consideration of the most complicated sentence structure of all, the compound-complex sentence. ADVERB CLAUSE Unlike the noun clause, the  ...
Cindy L. Vitto, 2006
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Analyzing the Grammar of English
To prove that something is a sentence adverb, we make use of a sentence adverb paraphrase, which goes like this: It is X that Here are some examples of sentence adverbs: Pl You clearly intend to get drunk tonight. (Paraphrase: lt is clear that ...
Richard V. Teschner, Eston Earl Evans, 2007
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Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th ...
From adverb to conditional subordinator In the end of the 17th century, or in the first decade of the 18th century, bara appears as a sentence adverb; Wijk- Andersson (1991:69f.) assumes that bara developed from adverb to sentence adverb ...
Michael D. Fortescue, 2005
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Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs
The base position of a sentence adverb c-commands the base-position of event- related adverbs (and also the base positions of arguments); b. The base position of a sentence adverb must c-command the base-position of the finite verb; c.
Mingya Liu, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SENTENCE ADVERB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sentence adverb is used in the context of the following news items.
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But, Seriously
“And I ate lunch”: How would you diagram the And? The only way to de-fragment it is to treat the And not as a conjunction but as a sentence adverb, like ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»
2
What 'Let's be clear' really means
Used in this way, the adverb "clearly" is what modern grammarians call a "sentence adverb." Rather than modifying a specific verb, it modifies the entire ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
The peeververein canon
Item: It is wrong to split a compound verb by inserting an adverb between the auxiliary and main verb. ... Item: Hopefully may not be used as a sentence adverb. «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»
4
Adverbs, the modifiers so unknowingly and even clutteringly misused
The most common adverb misused in this way is “hopefully.” “Hopefully, I will win the power ball lottery this week.” Sentence adverbs modify the whole sentence. «Sharonherald, Jan 15»
5
Everything you wanted to know about danglers but were too afraid to …
The result is that they can be read as describing the subject of the sentence ... A sentence adverb is a word such as seriously, frankly, luckily, hypothetically, ... «The Week Magazine, Sep 14»
6
Before you tweet your outrage about grammar ...
Not starting a sentence with a coordinating conjunction or ending one with a ... The scorn for hopefully as a sentence adverb, though it appears to be fading, has ... «Baltimore Sun, Jun 14»
7
Claims of misuse of 'hopefully' etc make my blood boil, literally
So let's look at the promotion of “hopefully” to a sentence adverb (an adverb expressing the speaker's attitude to the content of the sentence). Sentence adverbs ... «The Conversation, May 14»
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The Word 'Hopefully' Is Here To Stay, Hopefully
There was something anticlimactic to the news that the AP Stylebook will no longer be objecting to the use of "hopefully" as a floating sentence adverb, as in, ... «NPR, May 12»
9
Hopefully, someone might learn something
... trendy vulgarians who tacked -wise indiscriminately onto adjectives were the same sort who would use hopefully as a sentence adverb. It's easy to identify the ... «Baltimore Sun, Apr 12»
10
Fix it, AP Stylebook
There is nothing wrong with placing an adverb between the preposition to and a verb in ... Use of this sentence adverb to mean "it is hoped" has been a peevers' ... «Baltimore Sun, Mar 12»

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