An adverb is a word that tells you more about a verb. Prince Lucas ran to the gate quickly. The verb is ‘ran’. The adverb is ‘quickly’. It tells you how Prince Lucas ran. You can also put the adverb ...

1. Only Rakesh broke the glasses yesterday. 2. Rakesh only broke the glasses yesterday. 3. Rakesh broke only the glasses yesterday. 4. Rakesh broke the glasses only yesterday. In the four sentences ...

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...