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I know I'm a little late with this, but...

Adverbs are undoubtedly one of the trickier parts of any language.

Even my German professor admitted that one of the main problems for her when learning English was the adverbs. Prepositions bothered her too, but not as much.

I think the best way to describe what an adverb is "something that describes something that isn't a noun".

Also, when I was in regular school (before college, I mean), my English teachers could never accurately describe just WHAT these different sentence-part things were.

I only just realized what a "predicate adjective" is in my German class this semester. I've known it all along, but I didn't know it was called that. I understand most of the basic concepts of language (many foreign ones, too), I just don't know all the terminology.


---One more thing about adverbs, they're not always single words. I learned in German that you can have "adverbs of time" in addition to "adverbs of manner". In German, you might say "Montags gehe ich einkaufen." or "On Mondays I go shopping." How is that an adverb? Well "on Mondays" is an adverbial phrase of time, and you can also think of it as "weekly" or ... "I go shopping weekly" but you're specifying that it's on Mondays that you go shopping... Either way, "weekly" and "On Mondays" are still adverbs of time that modify the verb "go" (in this case, "go shopping"). That's how my professor explained it. I may not be correct. sweatdrop

Does anyone get that? I think I may have rambled a bit.

I'm STILL trying to figure out if, when you say "I speak Russian," the word "Russian" could be considered an adverb.

That's why I called them so elusive.

I sometimes wonder what other way there would be to write that we haven't ever thought of. I mean, can't all writing systems be described as syllabaries, alphabets, or "pictograms"? Is there no other way to write?

Also, I think it's funny how most created alphabets I've seen seem to look very similar razz

"Similar" is often due to unfamiliarity -- to an untrained eye, for instance, Cambodian and Georgian would look extremely similar. But to a Cambodian or a Georgian, they're worlds apart. =Þ

Not at all what I meant; I know this.

I mean like how we tend to write in these styles.

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ok, ok, so that's kind of a no-duh kind of thing. I don't know how to explain what I mean crying And I have 3 essays to write in one hour, and I have no idea what topic. So I must go.

I braindead.