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Adverb as a party of speech is characterized by the
following features:
1) lexico-grammatical meaning of “qualitative,
quantitative or circumstantial characteristics of stations, state or
qualities”;
2) typical stem-building affixes, as in quick-ly, side-ways,
clock-wise, back-wards, a-shore, etc. in the English language;
3) the grammatical category of the degrees of comparison;
4) its unilateral combinability with verbs, adjectives,
adverbs, less regularly with ad links and nouns speaking of
English adverbs. In Ukrainian adverbs usually modify verbs,
showing different circumstances under which actions take place;
5) the syntactic function of adverbial complement or
adverbial modifier, sometimes other functions.
English adverbs may be divided into three lexico-
grammatical subclasses: qualitative, quantitative, and
circumstantial.
1) qualitative adverbs like loudly, brightly, quickly, etc.
usually modify verbs, less often adlinks. Compare: speak loudly
and loud speech;
2) quantitative adverbs like very, rather, too, nearly, fully,
twofold, etc. show the degree, measure, quantity of the action,
quality, state, etc. The combinability of this subclass is more
extensive than that of the qualitative adverbs. It was nearly ten;
3) circumstantial adverbs serve to denote various
circumstances (mostly local and temporal) attending an action.
Accordingly they fall into two subclasses:
1) adverbs of time and frequency (yesterday, tomorrow,
before, often, twice, etc;.
2) adverbs of place and direction (upstairs, inside, behind,
etc.).
In Ukrainian the subclasses of adverbs are presented in a
slightly different way. The semantics of Ukrainian adverbs varies,

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