Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sentence adverb

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables: sen-tence ad-verb
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An adverb that modifies an entire clause or sentence rather than a single word or phrase.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

sentence adverbs (plural)

Questions

What does sentence adverb mean?: An adverb that modifies an entire clause or sentence rather than a single word or phrase.

How to pronounce sentence adverb

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