Different approaches to the study of sentence adverbs

Sandra Mara Pereira Cardoso

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A difficult problem that grammarians have to face concerns adverbs. Perhaps because adverbs playa variety of semantic and syntactic roles in English, they have been the least studied and the most badly treated part of speech.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.4.1.61-83

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