[docs] Comment on a section 7.2.5.7.
Sandro Tosi
sandro.tosi at gmail.com
Sat Aug 18 10:14:48 CEST 2012
Hello Ovidius,
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Ovidius Publius Naso
<ovidius.exile at gmail.com> wrote:
> My comment does not affect the validity of the example
> given in section 7.2.5.7. "Finding all Adverbs and their
> Positions", but its misleading title.
>
> The reason is that none all adverbs end on "ly" (e.g. well,
> fast, slow, tight) and not all words ending on "ly" are
> adverbs (e.g. bully, friendly, Italy, apply, supply), or there
> are words whose type depends on situation (e.g. ugly)
I don't think the subject wants to be universally true, so it won't
present a regex to find all the possible adverbs in any sentence, but
it juts wants to show how to find the adverbs in the sentence:
"He was carefully disguised but captured quickly by police."
which of course is crafted ad hoc to have adverbs ending in 'ly'.
Regards,
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