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Hans51 Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Usage of nowadays and here

People nowadays don't smoke a lot.

I know that the speech part of nowadays is an adverb and I was wondering if nowadays as an adverb modifies People or it modifies smoke or both are okay and there is no meaning difference between them?


People here do not like it.

Here in the sentence, the word here as an adverb modifies People and is it also possible for here to modify People that way?

And I think that if here modifies like there, it does not make sense, right?


What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.

  

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An adverb cannot modify a noun by definition. You are confusing yourself needlessly. Forget the whole adverb-modifying-a-noun business.

— Anonymous

  • An adverb cannot modify a noun by definition.
  • You are confusing yourself needlessly.
  • Forget the whole adverb-modifying-a-noun business.
  • If a word modifies a noun, we call it an adjective.
  • A word does not belong to a part of speech in isolation.
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An adverb cannot modify a noun by definition. You are confusing yourself needlessly. Forget the whole adverb-modifying-a-noun business. If a word modifies a noun, we call it an adjective. A word does not belong to a part of speech in isolation. It assumes a role in context. What you are seeing is idiomatic moving of the adverb. People don't smoke a lot nowadays. Here, people do not like it. En

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Hans51I know that the speech part of nowadays is an adverb and I was wondering if nowadays as an adverb modifies People or it modifies smoke or both are okay and there is no meaning difference between them?

I'd say that 'nowadays' modifies the whole sentence. (I'd call it a "sentential adverb" or "sentential modifier".) Paraphrasing:

This is what i

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