Peter, I know what you mean about conjunctive adverbs.  They are "mobile,"
as are adverbs.

 

However, conjunctive adverbs cannot be intensified, which is, I think, a
property adverbs have: very suddenly, for example.  Nor are conjunctive
adverbs able to modify verbs. 

 

Christine (Gray)

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Subject: Conjunctive Adverbs

 

Everyone seems to agree, even Martha Kolln and the Cambridge Grammar, that
conjunctive adverbs are, indeed, conjunctions.  I still don't see why they
are not just considered adverbs.  Does anyone see it my way?  



Peter Adams



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