As the poet said, I'm sufficiently proud about knowing something to be occasionally modest about my not knowing everything. I'm not quite certain what this modifying business is all about, because I don't even know what an adverb or a pronoun is, and why should I, it's beneath me. Please don't down vote this answer! Smart people should stick together! Once it has established itself, being smart and all, a bunch of nerds rush in to make up some rules that profess to reflect this harmony, but it never really works. The OP suggests I should put it in "a smarter way." Okay, here goes: There's absolutely no reason why they shouldn't. I agree with the OP that adverbs can absolutely modify pronouns. I'm going to put it in the nicest way possible on the chance it might help me to avoid further downvotes on this answer of mine, o ye cavemen. This said, I can't contradict any of the English native speakers but can only picture the way other people see the subject. However, in my language it is unanimously accepted that an adverb, as a dependent and inflexible part of speech, always acts as a determiner to the: verb, verb phrase, adjective, another adverb, interjection, noun that denotes actions, states or properties, pronoun and numeral. Yet they are quite unlike adjectives in other uses. Of course, they function as adjectives in these sentences. Naturally, some will argue that these words are adjectives. Note: almost nearly hardly about, etc., can be used in this wayĪlmost everyone gave something.
Yet, others assert that adverbs can modify pronouns:ĭefinition of an adverb modifying a pronoun:Īn adverb which precedes a pronoun and modifies the pronoun. Some argue that since an adverb modifies a noun or a pronoun it automatically becomes an adjective.
Many people say that by definition a word that modifies a noun or a pronoun isĪn adjective, which is why there's an ample debate on the subject among English native speakers.
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