wiki: An adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs, except for nouns; modifiers of nouns are primarily determiners and adjectives. example: An extremely attractive woman entered the room.
Okay, but that definition says that any word which modifies any other word is an adverb, with adjectives being this special case for nouns. If that's true, then "deep" is an adverb in the sentence s "I have a deep purple eggplant" or "The eggplant was deep purple" (since purple is an adjective), but it's an adjective in the sentence like, "The color was a deep purple" (purple used as a noun). Does that make sense? I'm not saying it's not so. It just seems weird.
You'd think there would be a standard test.
I need some quick judgments, people. Adjective or adverb?
"very" in "very happy" "very" in "very happily" (just for fun) "light", "dark" as in "light purple", "dark purple"
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example:
An extremely attractive woman entered the room.
I have some tubes
You'd think there would be a standard test.
I need some quick judgments, people. Adjective or adverb?
"very" in "very happy"
"very" in "very happily" (just for fun)
"light", "dark" as in "light purple", "dark purple"
Re: I have some tubes