Sometimes placing two adverbs in a row sounds awkward. This is because the adverbs all end in "ly. Nadine Smith has been writing since Nadine holds a Master of Arts in English language and literature from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, where she led seminars as a teaching assistant. Somewhere : I want to go fishing somewhere warm and sunny. There : We went to Minnesota for my cousin's wedding and stayed there for three nights.
Underground : The gopher began burrowing underground. Upstairs : I went upstairs to see my grandma who was on bed rest. Adverbs Tell When It Happened Examples of adverbs that describe when an action occurred include: Early : She arrived early for the meeting. First : When I bake, I make cookies first. Last : When I clean, I do laundry last. Later : I will stop by later to see how you are doing.
Never : He never wants to go to the park with me. Now : The movie is starting now. Regularly : Writing regularly in my journal is soothing. Today : I have many things to accomplish today. Tomorrow : Tomorrow , we are going to the movies. Yesterday : She came over for a visit yesterday.
Adverbs Tell the Extent of the Action Adverbs also describe the extent to which something was done, including: Almost : I almost stopped at McDonald's for lunch, but I was running late. Also : A talented singer, Jamie also enjoys playing the saxophone. Enough : Daniel is finally tall enough to ride the roller coaster.
Only : I only take the bus to work on Mondays. Not : He is not running that race today. Quite : I was quite pleased to see my son's progress in school this year. Rather : I am rather tired after spending the day at the beach. So : I am so hungry, I could eat a horse. Too : It is too loud in here for me to concentrate.
Very : Baby Emily was very tired after missing her afternoon nap. It's more that it doesn't sound right to get two adverbs together, especially if they're derived with -ly.
The intonation is awkward. This question needs rephrasing, because as it stands it can only be rhetorical. Obviously adverbs can modify other adverbs — That plane is moving very slowly , this snail is moving incredibly fast — and look, even the Wikipedia article on adverbs mentions that right in its second sentence: "Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives including numbers , clauses, sentences, and other adverbs".
Ah I see your point and agree completely in fact now I feel silly asking it in that way. Perhaps I should word with more of a tone such as JohnLawler suggested—does it sound right. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. There are plenty of circumstances in which consecutive adverbs occur.
Improve this answer. It is fine to write for example It was not exactly accidentally done. This means it is not exactly true that it was accidentally done. I'd instinctively switch accidentally and done around in that sentence to avoid the double-adverb awkwardness. Based on this you can't have three adverbs in a row.
But if we place a conjuction between the words " slowly " and " unusually " in the first example, then the sentence reads well:. What other ways are there to modify a verb with two or more adverbs other than by placing a comma or a conjuction in-between? The adverb " interestingly " sounds out of place after " unusually ", whereas some other adverbs like " well " for instance, sound okay. Or is this odd only to my non-native ear? Edit : I was thinking of a possibility to modify a verb with a pre-modifier and a post-modifier:.
Here "unusually" does affect the whole "speaking slowly" part. So, after writing my above comment, I came across this sentence I wrote earlier this year, in answer to a completely unrelated question.
When someone looks at art, usually, initially , they like or dislike the subject. It's a slightly awkward but I think grammatical way to have two adverbs in a row both modifying the same verb "to like". Here the adverbs separately modify the verb, so "usually and initially" does not sound right. This isn't quite the structure you're trying to create, but it's the only one I can think of where this might be acceptable.
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