By the 20th century, the word had taken its now-familiar ― and different ― adverbial form. “As long as things go smoothly, ...

A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.

In American Sign Language, certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers. In this example, Bloomberg is explaining that things will get back to normal little by little.

“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,&#8… ...