sentence adverb

English

Examples
  • Understandably, some of you are going to be very upset.
  • Hopefully, there won't be more than a few dozen.
    • [Such use of hopefully has been proscribed, but various modern usage guides state that that notion is dated and not practically useful anymore.]

Noun

sentence adverb (plural sentence adverbs)

  1. (grammar) An adverb that modifies an entire clause or sentence rather than a single word or phrase.
    Hypernym: disjunct
    • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 156:
      In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up, put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on, come up with) [...] duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.

See also

  • Category:English sentence adverbs
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