Adverbs form a large layer of vocabulary in the Russian language, and in our speech they are quite common. But did you know that adverbs have different ranks? And that only one of them answers the question “how?”, Namely, the adverbs of the mode of action. Did not know? Then you should refresh your knowledge on this topic a little.
Parts of speech
Before you know what an adverb is, you need to get acquainted with all parts of speech. Parts of speech are the main grammatical groups of words. They are divided into two main types: official and independent, but there is also a third group, which includes interjection and onomatopoeia. Independents got this name due to the fact that they can function without additional words, and the service parts of speech must always have the word to which they belong. Another important difference between the independent parts of the speech from the service is that they stand out graphically during the analysis of sentences by members.
Independent parts of speech are nouns, adjectives, verbs and their forms in the form of participles and participles, numerals, pronouns, adverbs and a category of state, which some consider as predicative adverbs and do not distinguish as a separate part of speech. Service parts of speech: conjunctions, prepositions, particles.
Adverb
An adverb is an independent part of speech (as mentioned earlier), characterizing a sign of the course of action. This is an unchangeable part of speech, since it has no ending at all. In a sentence is a circumstance or, very rarely, a predicate. We can distinguish six categories from adverbs that answer different questions and have different semantics.
The categories of adverbs and the questions to which they answer:
- way of action (how? how?);
- places (where? where? where?);
- time (when? how long?);
- measures and degrees (to what extent? how many times? how much?);
- reasons (for what reason? why?);
- purpose (for what? for what purpose?).
Adverbs of Action
To this category, questions are asked "how?" and "how?" Most often, adverbs of the mode of action relate to verbs or verb forms (participles, verbal participles and infinitives), also adverbs of comparison and assimilation belong to this group. Their goal is to indicate exactly how the action was performed. These dialects do not conjugate and do not bow, because they do not have inflection. The most frequent suffix for this category is -–, also for the formation of adverbs of this category are often used confixes (paired affixes) in -__- him / th, in -__ ski / tski / whose. Examples of adverbs of a way of action: so, quickly, friendly, girlish, different, fun.
It is important not to confuse the predicative adverbs (category of state) and adverbs that answer the question “how?”. For example, "fun to play" and "I have fun." In the first case, “fun” is the adverb of the mode of action, and in the second, the category of state. In order to prevent such errors, it is worth remembering that predicative adverbs can play the role of a predicate, and adverbs of a way of acting depend on the predicate and in the sentence they play the role of circumstances.
This article was supposed to help you answer all your questions related to the adverbs of the mode of action in Russian.