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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Back to basics - adverb
Hi,
What does an adverb do? I think it modifies a verb, adjective or an adverb. Having said that, I think some adverbs can be called 'sentence adverbs', meaning they modify an entire sentence.
For the sentence below, I don't see the traditional role of an adverb played out.
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing, hence the decision to end it.
You have this, "hence the decision to end it", and "hence" seems to be an adverb (because a dictionary seemed to have said so).
I think an adverb can be taken out in a typical sentence and still make sense. Let us take the 'hence' out, then we get this:
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing, the decision to end it.
I think the same dilemma occurs for the adverb "thus" and "for example".
Why I don't see them fit into my notion of a what a normal should act like or take place as in a typical sententical pattern?
If the previous were written like this, it would be convincing and seem fill the role of a sentence adverb -- but apparently to me, the first one doesn't feel like it functions as a what I have known to be adverb.
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing; and thus/hence/therefore, the decision to end it came about.
What does an adverb do? I think it modifies a verb, adjective or an adverb. Having said that, I think some adverbs can be called 'sentence adverbs', meaning they modify an entire sentence.
For the sentence below, I don't see the traditional role of an adverb played out.
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing, hence the decision to end it.
You have this, "hence the decision to end it", and "hence" seems to be an adverb (because a dictionary seemed to have said so).
I think an adverb can be taken out in a typical sentence and still make sense. Let us take the 'hence' out, then we get this:
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing, the decision to end it.
I think the same dilemma occurs for the adverb "thus" and "for example".
Why I don't see them fit into my notion of a what a normal should act like or take place as in a typical sententical pattern?
If the previous were written like this, it would be convincing and seem fill the role of a sentence adverb -- but apparently to me, the first one doesn't feel like it functions as a what I have known to be adverb.
That's not its mission now and, despite steep membership increases for adults meant to bring in more revenue, the adult swim is no longer self-supporing; and thus/hence/therefore, the decision to end it came about.
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Hi, When we say . . hence the decision to end it, it seems to me, as you suggest, we are really saying something like .
- Hi, When we say .
- .
- hence the decision to end it, it seems to me, as you suggest, we are really saying something like .
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- hence the decision was made to end it or hence the decision was made to end it.
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Hi,
When we say . . . hence the decision to end it, it seems to me, as you suggest, we are really saying something like . . . hence the decision was made to end it or hence the decision was made to end it. I think we are just omitting some of the words. It's just an idiomatic way of using phrases that start with words like 'hence' and 'thus'.
Best wishes, Clive
When we say . . . hence the decision to end it, it seems to me, as you suggest, we are really saying something like . . . hence the decision was made to end it or hence the decision was made to end it. I think we are just omitting some of the words. It's just an idiomatic way of using phrases that start with words like 'hence' and 'thus'.
Best wishes, Clive
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