Generally speaking, the conversion of adjectives into adverbs seems a common feature of older American speech. Take the word ‘terrible.’ A quickGoogle Bookssearch reveals such 19th-Century uses as: It is aterrible coldfrost, and snow fell yesterday, which still remains … I have thought it ...
In the LLC, the differences in gender-linked usage of the conditionals was somewhat more complicated than in the other kinds of clauses. First, the greater use of the conditionals by female characters than male characters appeared not in the total number of conditionals used, where the ...
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