The conjunctive adverb after makes one of the actions subsequent to the other, and gives to the visiting all the priority that is signified by the pluperfect tense.

1.Most adverbs that are formed from adjectives by the addition of ly, will admit the comparative adverbs more and most, less and least, before them:, as, wisely, more wisely, most wisely; culpably, less culpably, least culpably.

" LIKELY, PROBABLY, LIKE.Likely is now used as an adjective only, except in the phrase "As likely as not;" ad the corresponding adverb is probably.

In the title of "His Most Christian Majesty," the superlative adverb is applied to a proper adjective; but who will pretend that we ought to understand by it "the highest degree" of Christian attainment?

"Any word, joined to an adverb, is a secondary adverb.

"Bringing together incongruous adverbs is a very common fault.

OBS 7.To abbreviate expressions, and give them vivacity, verbs of self-motion (such as go, come, rise, get, &c.) are sometimes suppressed, being suggested to the mind by an emphatic adverb, which seems to be put for the verb, but does in fact relate to it understood; as, "I'll hence to London, on a serious matter.

independent, to what may relate ADVERBS, Etymol. of Adverb, defined Adverbs, serve to abbreviate expression other classes of words sometimes take the nature of appar.

Interrogative adverbs are used to ask questions:

6.Arabic figures used as ordinals, or used for the numeral adverbs, first, or firstly, secondly, thirdly, &c., are very commonly pointed with the period, even where the pause required after them is less than a full stop; as, "We shall consider these words, 1. as expressing resolution; and 2. as expressing futurity.

Write the forms in which the following adjectives are compared, using the comparative adverbs of inferiority or diminution: objectionable, formidable, forcible, comely, pleasing, obvious, censurable, prudent, imprudent, imperfect, pleasant, unpleasant. EXERCISE IV.PRONOUNS.

They have been called phrased adverbs; as, arm-in-arm, now-a-days, etc. +73.

(c) Clauses introduced by a relative or interrogative adverb, such as when, whenever, since (referring to time), until, before, after, where, whence, whither, wherever, why, as, how: [I know the house where lie lives].

The Song to David, with its bold mention of unfamiliar things, its warm and highly-coloured phraseology, its daring adjectives and unexampled adverbs, was an outrage upon taste, and one which was best accounted for by the tap of the forefinger on the forehead.

Mr. Beauvoir is not avowedly a man of imposing presence; he wears a seal ring, and he is generally a scion of an effete oligarchy, but he has, since his introduction into this community, behaved himself, to use the adjectivial adverb of Mr. McMullin, white, and he has a very remarkable biceps.

Strange to say, these collisions did not provoke any to insults or the use of vulgar adverbs, but gentle reproofs kept them all cool and steady till we entered the cars again.

SO-AS, AS-AS.Both so and as are used as adverbs of degree correlative with the conjunction "as": unless there is a negative in the clause as is generally used; with a negative so is preferable to as.

Note the two senses in which the adverb of place, donde, is used.]

Well,these are two highly oxygenated adverbs,grateful, suppose we say,yes,grateful, dutiful, obedient to her wishes for the most part,perhaps not quite up to the concert pitch of such a perfect orchestra of the virtues.

by adverbs not wholly inadmissible.

ADVERBS, 109-133; defined,109; vulgarisms in the use of, 109-113; adverb or adjective, 113-116; redundant, 117-118; misused, 119-129; use of the comparative and superlative degrees, 129-131; adverbs incapable of comparison, 131-132; misplaced, 132-133; between to and the infinitive, 133.

adjectives Comparis., irregular Comparis., whether to be mentioned in parsing adverbs inclusive, and exclusive Comparisons, extra, their impropriety Crit.