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A class of words that modify the meaning of a verb, adjective, another adverb, clause, or sentence. Examples in English are "quickly", "often" or "today". Not to be confused with adverbials (sometimes also called "modifiers"), which may consist of a group of words and not necessarily of adverbs.
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What is the benefit of tenses when time period can be pinned down by adverbs?
To do this with adverbs, you'd say "Tom had, in the past, punched Marty." That's wordy and still uses the conjugation. In english, the suffixes "-ed" and "'ll*" allow for future and past tense. …
