Few tips to Use Adverbs as Part of Speech
- The sentence based on too…to format can only be replaced with so…that,
if ‘cannot’ is also added while conversion.
Example:- The box is too heavy to lift.
- The box is too heavy that one cannot lift it. (Incorrect)
- The box is so heavy that one cannot lift it. (Correct).
- Two negatives cancel each other. So avoid using double negatives unless we make an affirmation.
Example:- I have not done nothing wrong. (Incorrect)
- I have not done anything wrong. (Correct)
- 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:- They work hardly in the fields. (Incorrect)
- They work hard in the fields. (Correct)
- Rita has hard uttered a word today. (Incorrect)
- Rita has hardly uttered a word today. (Correct)
- The sentences which begin with seldom, never, hardly,
scarcely or rarely, have the following structure: Adverb + Verb + Subject
Example:- Seldom we have gathered together. (Incorrect)
- Seldom have we gathered together. (Correct)