Дипломная работа: Syntagmatic and paradigmatic peculiarities of adverbs in English

He will be ten tomorrow .

This accounts for the fact that, unlike qualitative and quantitative adverbs, circumstantial adverbs are not necessarily placed near the verb, they may occupy different places in the sentence:

It wasn’t any too warm yesterday [41].

Yesterday they had a snow-squall out west [41].

Circumstantial adverbs may be considered as the movable words [25, 284]. The most mobile are adverbs of time and place. They can occupy several positions without any change in their meaning, as in:

Usually he signs well.

He usually signs well.

He signs well usually . [25, 284]

When H. Sweet speaks of adverbs, as showing almost the last remains of normal free order in Modern English, it concerns, mostly, circumstantial adverbs [35].

Table 2: Characteristic features of quantitative adverbs

1. Lexico-grammatical meaning	Show the degree, measure, quantity of an action, quality, state
2. Typical stem-building affixes	Are often formed from adjectives by adding -ly
3. Morphological categories	-----------------------------------------
4. Typical patterns of combinability	Modify verbs, adjectives, statives, adverbs, indefinite pronouns, numerals, modals, and even nouns
5. Syntactic functions	Adverbial modifier of degree

Here is a list of adverbs of degree [16, 293]:

Absolutely

Somewhat

Adequately

Soundly

Almost

Strongly

Altogether

Sufficiently

Amazingly

Supremely

Awfully

Surprisingly

Badly

Terribly

Extraordinarily

Extremely

Fairly

Fantastically

Fully