What is meaning of an adverb?
As a modern grammar student, I was surprised to see that days are regarded as adverbs. I would like to learn more about the reasons so, too.
Has the definition of adverb been constant over the last 50 years? I feel that neither yesterday nor nevertheless were defined to be adverbs in the 1970s but I could well be wrong.
Are words that appear in an adverb as adverbs? “Yesterday” is a temporal noun, so it can appear adverbial (although it is actually the referent of an elided “”). ‘Nevertheless’ is related to ‘However’ and is an adverb, but many people are tempted to punctuate it like conjunctions (cf. ‘but’). Conjunction clauses are adverbial, but they are dependent clauses.
yesterday, I was hungry, but I didn’t eat, what?
I am very hungry. How do I get rid of it? I did not eat.
Shorter Oxford (revised Onions 1933) lists yesterday as noun and adverb.
Yesterday Sbn. What is my last Sunday Day post? Byron. Is this true?
All our history have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Is Will Shakespeare?“He
was to dine as yestesterday with the Frazers (Adverb) the whole time.” Jane Austen
Nevertheless is only listed as adverb. However is not recorded.
Where Fotwithstanding is given in the text: preposition, (notwithstanding their objections…); as adverb, (he saw it would come to pass notwithstanding); and conjunction, (Notwithstanding that they were once burned by the Duke of Burgundy). 1595;
read the translation correctly and understand well.
