A wonderful characterization, captured in the 1970s in the title of Jim McCawley's paper "Adverbs and other objects of wonder."
Herb
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Edgar Schuster
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Subject: Re: Adverb clauses with "that"
I'm reminded of Horne Tooke's characterization of the adverb as"that common
sink and repository of all heterogeneous unknown corruptions" in the late 18th
century.
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