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Daisee
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Does this have a name?
Regularly, half hourly, hourly, daily, nightly, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, yearly, annually.
Is it time intervals? Time periods?
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7 Aug 2011
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ueslteacher
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Adverbs defining the regularity with which the action takes place - regularity adverbs, adverbs of frequency? Wait for a native speaker to comment. Sophia
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7 Aug 2011
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Daisee
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Thank you Sophia for your quick answer
I think I found it: adverbs of definite frequency. (Swan Practical English Usage page 19)
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7 Aug 2011
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ueslteacher
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And thank you:) Honestly I didn �t know they were called adverbs of definite frequency. So thanks for coming back and enlightening me:) Sophia |
7 Aug 2011
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Daisee
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P.S. I only found it because you gave me a clue with regularity adverbs. I googled that and a few sites did refer to that and that �s what gave me the clue. I had only heard of adverbs of frequency and didn �t know about the definite and indefinite titles. But now I do.
Thank you so very very much for your quick assistance in my hour of need because without that I would be no further. |
7 Aug 2011
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Teacher_Alnikmar
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I call them adverbs of frequency. The suffix -ly indicates the way something happens. |
7 Aug 2011
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libertybelle
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Grammatically they are adverbs of frequency -
but in everyday language they are intervals of time.
hourly - every hour
monthly - once a month
yearly - once a year.
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8 Aug 2011
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