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SPECIAL TOPICS IN INTERMEDIATE JAPANESE GRAMMAR
3. Pre-verbal adverbials

There are several kinds of words and phrases which function as pre-verbal
adverbials.*
3.1. Adverbs / Adverbial nouns

(15) @ 9 < 13 (slowly); +I (today)
3.2. Adverbial forms of adjectives
(16) < (quickly); kb C: (quietly)

3.3. Adverbial forms of auxiliary adjectives
.h **
(17) 5% 9 +-if < (in an easy-to-understand fashion); % L? i (sadly)
I:
3.4. Quantifiers
(18) a. ~:<s/v(&<a)
((eat) a lot)
ehxk m
b. (t--lb2)5$(&?5)
((drink) three (beers))
3.5. Phonornimes, phenomimes, and psychomimes
(19) a. (%F) 7 'J 7 7 (& < )
((a dog) bowwows)
b. (!3*Z2)-ifb-ifb(%t.f)
((read Japanese) easily)

c. 2%Y2%Y(-if&)
((be) nervous)
3.6. Quotation + 2 **
(20) a. rm~iu&x
((say) "Good morning")

*The contrastive wa may be affixed to pre-verbal adverbials.
**A quotation can be a complete sentence or part of a sentence.

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