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Adverbial use
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Many adverbial modifiers cannot be clearly assigned to a syntactic category. However, Adjective Phrases (APs) can be used as adverbial modifiers to all other syntactic categories. APs can modify Verb Phrases (VPs) and clauses:

1
Hy rint fluch nei hûs ta
he walks fast to home to
He walked home fast

APs can modify APs:

2
Ôfgryslik-e fluch
terrible.EMPH fast
Terribly fast

APs can modify Adposition Phrases (PPs):

3
Djip under de grûn
deep under the ground
Deep under the ground

APs can modify Noun Phrases (NPs):

4
Sipke is echt in held
Sipke is truly a hero
Sipke is a real hero
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