20 Examples of Adverbs of Quantity

Adverbs of quantity

The adverbs of quantity are words that modify a verb, an adjective or other adverb, they provide quantitative information, they describe the magnitude of the main verb. For example: We ran a lot of.

Like all adverbs, within the sentence, they are usually found within the predicate, What circumstantial, which modify the verb and provide information about the circumstances in which the action was carried out. In the case of adverbs of quantity, they work as circumstantial quantity.

Among the morphological characteristics of adverbs, the absence of inflection by gender and number can be highlighted: adverbs are typically invariable words, that is, they are always written the same, regardless of whether the subject is masculine, feminine, singular or plural.

For example: Knows Quite. / Know Quite.

It should be clarified that certain words can function as adjectives or as adverbs, depending on where they are located in the sentence; hence, in some cases they flex in gender and / or number and in other cases they do not.

For example:

Examples of adverbs of quantity

Sentences with adverbs of quantity

1. We're extremely worried about the economic situation of the country.
2. I'm not going to be on time, sorry a lot of.
3. We do not know nothing about the new job.
4. Are anything else pale than yesterday.
5. I am a little angry at the team for what happened.
6. At the recital there was approximately one hundred thousand spectators.
7. I'm not going to dinner, we ate Quite at noon.
8. I don't like their attitude, they are too confident.
9. It's a house very large, there is room for everyone.
10. Heaven will be mainly clear today.

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Special features

Some particular considerations can be made for certain cases of the adverbs of quantity: the word 'something' It works as an adverb of quantity (in particular, a low quantity), departing a bit from its original meaning, which is what designates what cannot or does not want to be named.

Something similar happens with the words 'well' or 'Fed up', that in addition to other semantic and syntactic values ​​that they can assume, can be used as adverbs of quantity, to refer to very large quantities.

The adverb of quantity 'Even' In some regions it is not used frequently, but it is very common to use 'not even', equivalent to 'not even'.

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