Timeline for Are there any limitations on the adverb usages(The only way to do it is very, very slowly.)?
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| Feb 4 at 1:14 | comment | added | Mr. Wang | @BillJ, yes, thanks. | |
| Feb 4 at 1:12 | vote | accept | Mr. Wang | ||
| Feb 3 at 16:12 | comment | added | BillJ | Are you clear about this now? | |
| Feb 2 at 10:21 | answer | added | BillJ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 2 at 9:55 | comment | added | BillJ | There are constraints on manner adverbs but there are one or two, such as "It was only very reluctantly that she agreed”. | |
| Feb 2 at 9:44 | comment | added | Mr. Wang | @BillJ Is it the only case where be is followed by the adverb? | |
| Feb 2 at 9:39 | comment | added | BillJ | Yes, it would still be OK. The meaning of "way" would be defined earlier in the discourse. It would still be complement of "be". "Early" has dual classification: it's an adjective in "an early start", and an adverb in "They arrived early". | |
| Feb 2 at 9:30 | comment | added | Mr. Wang | @BillJ If 'to do it' is omitted, 'slowly' can still be ok? I do not know why 'early' is not an adverb, since they both seem to have a similar structure. | |
| Feb 2 at 9:29 | comment | added | BillJ | Slowly" is a manner adverb; it describes the nature of the action. Adjectives don't do that; instead they describe nouns not verbs, so "slow" would be quite wrong here. "Tomorrow" is not an adverb but an NP with the deictic pronoun "tomorrow" as head functioning as an adjunct of temporal location. No: you can't say *You are so beautifully" "Beautifully" is an adverb, so it cannot be a subject complement of "be" describing "you" (I've reposted this comment because it contained a typo) | |
| Feb 2 at 8:24 | history | asked | Mr. Wang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |