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Adverb vs Interjection - What's the difference?

adverb | interjection |

As nouns the difference between adverb and interjection

is that adverb is adverb while interjection is (grammar) an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

adverb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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 :
  • ‘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 .
  • * (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 .
  • 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 adverb

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

  • an (l)
  • References

    * ----

    interjection

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
  • *
  • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
    (21) (a)      ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
    (21) (b)    ?''Bill
    , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
  • An interruption; something interjected
  • See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----