‘make a decision now’
I have learned that adverbs modify all speech parts excluding nouns and then I was wondering what the adverb ‘now’ modifies in the sentence?
‘You should make a decision now.’
Does ‘now’ modify ‘make’ or ‘make a decision’ or others?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual.
Top answer
"now" modifies "make (a decision)". Hans51 adverbs modify all speech parts excluding nouns Actually, when the noun represents an event, an adverb of time can modify it. The professor's lecture yesterday was very interesting.
- "now" modifies "make (a decision)".
- Hans51 adverbs modify all speech parts excluding nouns Actually, when the noun represents an event, an adverb of time can modify it.
- The professor's lecture yesterday was very interesting.
- Here "yesterday" is an adverb modifying "lecture".
- ) And if the noun is an object, an adverb of place can modify it.
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"now" modifies "make (a decision)".
Hans51adverbs modify all speech parts excluding nouns
Actually, when the noun represents an event, an adverb of time can modify it.
The professor's lecture yesterday was very interesting.
Here "yesterday" is an adverb modifying "lecture". (A lecture is an event.)
And if the noun is an objec
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