Adverbs in the literature as an example the story of Jack London's "White Fang"

Adverbial modifier of time

A few minutes later, Henry, who was now travelling behind the sled, emitted a law warning whistle. [3, p. 23]

Like most creatures of the Wild, he early experienced famine. [3, p. 67]

Adverbial modifier of frequency

E.g. She rarely slept any more in the cave, spending most of her time on the meat-trail and spending it vainly. [3, p. 86]

He had waited too often and futilely in the past for porcupines to unroll, to waste any more time. [3, p. 58]

Adverbial modifier of place

E.g. Danger and hurt and death did not lurk everywhere about him. [3, p.246]

He came down a shelving bank to the stream. [3, p. 79]

They remained in a circle about him and his fire, displaying an arrogance of possession that shook his courage born of the morning light. [3, p. 35]

Adverbial modifier of manner

E.g. Henry looked at him commiseratingly. [3,p. 9]

His two dogs were missing, and he well knew that they had served as a course in the protracted meal which had begun days before with Fatty. [3, p. 38]

He travelled very clumsily. [3, p. 75]

Adverbial modifier of degree

E.g. Also, live things when they were large enough could give hurt. [3, p. 79]

The heritage was too compelling for a wolf that was only a cub. [3,p. 92]

When adverbs modify adjectives or other adverbs, they serve as adverbial modifiers of degree (as intensifies):

At the rear limped the weak members, the very young and the very old. [3, p. 43]

White Fang came in until he touched Grey Beaver's knee, so curious was he, and already forgetful that this was a terrible man-animal. [3, p. 101]

Comparative adverbs are used in clauses of proportional agreement.

The longer he walked, the better he walked. [3, p. 76]

Comparative adverbs are used to express the idea that a quality or action increases at an even rate the comparative may be repeated

There are some adverbs which may modify nouns or words of nominal character, functioning as attribute.

His return home was late. [3, p.67]

Parenthetical adverbs are adverbs that don't change the meaning of the sentence. They are often used at the beginning of the sentence. We observed many parentheticals in the book. Some examples of them are the following:

E.g. Besides, he did not like the hands of the man-animals. [3, p. 133]

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances. [3, p. 80]

Furthermore, the sled was of some service, for it carried nearly two hundred pounds of outfit and food. [3, p. 127]

Yet the warm blood of the rabbit tasted good in his mouth. [3, p. 52]

Also, he had once nearly had an eye poked out by a toddling papoose. [3, p. 133]

Namely, that the unpardonable crime was to bite one of the gods. [3, p. 133]

Parentheticals are supposed to receive a so-called `comma intonation', which may be modelled by saying that they form a distinct prosodic phrase.

Nevertheless, he made out, sheltering between her legs against the length of her body, five strange little bundles of life, very feeble, very helpless, making tiny whimpering noises, with eyes that did not open to the light. [3, p. 56]

As we can see from the examples parentheticals don't add any meaning to the sentence.

CONCLUSIONS

Throughout this course paper, we have to make connections between theory and practice through research. Having analysed adverbs in literary source we can barely find that there is a tendency towards more frequent usage of derived adverbs than others. Various types of adverbs found in the novel “White Fang” are used in the Modern English language.

The result of the investigation testifies to the fact that adverbs created due to the derivation are widely used in the English language. The most productive suffix is -ly. We found many examples of such a type in the novel.

As adverbs can be classified from different point of view approximately all types of adverbs happen to meet in the book.

Adverbs can perform different functions in the sentence. Traditionally, adverbs are regarded as qualifying verbs and adjectives. The examples analysed in the novel demonstrate that adverbs are mostly used as adverbial modifier.

Parentheticals and evaluatives have a distinct illocutionary status that sets them apart from ordinary constituents. Most existing descriptions of parenthetical expressions hypothesize a strict correlation between the special illocutionary status of parentheticals and a special prosodic status. There are many adverbs which are in the status of parentheticals and they are also used in the novel “White Fang”.

We may say that an adverb plays the important role in tthe English language and it is really rich of adverbs and a well-developed system of adverbs is great advantage in the language.

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