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Has the adverb gone out of fashion?
Manage episode 479774717 series 90417
It’s over a week since many of us would have first heard that Pope Francis had “sadly died”.
And this particular phrasing may have reminded those of you who are more grammatically minded of the much slower demise of something else; the adverb.
So, why have they gone out of fashion?
Stephen Lucek is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at UCD. He joins Seán to discuss.
3573 episodes
Manage episode 479774717 series 90417
It’s over a week since many of us would have first heard that Pope Francis had “sadly died”.
And this particular phrasing may have reminded those of you who are more grammatically minded of the much slower demise of something else; the adverb.
So, why have they gone out of fashion?
Stephen Lucek is Assistant Professor in Linguistics at UCD. He joins Seán to discuss.
3573 episodes
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