Adverb vs Expression - What's the difference?
adverb | expression |
(grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
* (modifying a verb'') ''I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
* (modifying an adjective'') ''It was often cold outside.
* (modifying another adverb'') ''Not often .
an (l)
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A colloquialism or idiom.
A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
As nouns the difference between adverb and expression
is that adverb is adverb while expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea.adverb
English
Noun
(en noun)- ‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely ’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb .
Usage notes
* Adverbs comprise a fundamental category of words in most languages. In English, adverbs are typically formed from adjectives by appending (-ly) and are used to modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, other adverbs, and entire sentences, but not nouns or noun phrases.Derived terms
* adverbial * adverbially * conjunctive adverb * pronominal adverbSee also
*Anagrams
* ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
References
* ----expression
English
(wikipedia expression)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
