Few tips to Use Adverbs as Part of Speech

Few tips to Use Adverbs as Part of Speech

1. The sentence based on too…to format can only be replaced with so…that,
   if ‘cannot’ is also added while conversion.

   Example:

   1. The box is too heavy to lift.
   2. The box is too heavy that one cannot lift it. (Incorrect)
   3. The box is so heavy that one cannot lift it. (Correct).
2. Two negatives cancel each other. So avoid using double negatives unless we make an affirmation.

   Example:

   1. I have not done nothing wrong. (Incorrect)
   2. I have not done anything wrong. (Correct)
3. The adverbs ‘hard’ and ‘hardly’ carry completely different meanings.
   The former means ‘diligently’, ‘intensely’,
   while the latter means ‘scarcely at all’. Therefore be careful while using them.

   Examples:

   1. They work hardly in the fields. (Incorrect)
   2. They work hard in the fields. (Correct)
   3. Rita has hard uttered a word today. (Incorrect)
   4. Rita has hardly uttered a word today. (Correct)
4. The sentences which begin with seldom, never, hardly,
   scarcely or rarely, have the following structure: Adverb + Verb + Subject

   Example:

   1. Seldom we have gathered together. (Incorrect)
   2. Seldom have we gathered together. (Correct)

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