ABSTRACT
The main job of an adverb is to modify or qualify a verb, an adjective or another adverb, but certain adverbs can modify almost any other part of speech, from a preposition to a whole sentence. Adverbs are usually placed before what they modify, and no connecting ezafe is required after them, although the words within an adverbial phrase might need this connector. Temporal frequency adverbs are usually placed at the beginning of the sentence. The -ane suffix was mentioned under adjectives in some detail, and it was mentioned that this suffix is used to make: adjectives from nouns, adjectives from other adjectives and adverbs from adjectives. Sometimes reduplication shows repetition or the order in which things appear and happen. A very common type of reduplication – with the same words used as nouns, adjectives or adverbs – is of an onomatopoeic nature.
