For example, here is an adverb clause that begins a sentence: "Because your input at the group meetings is always creative and insightful, I'm putting you in charge of the project".
For example, the English morpheme ' ly' converts an adjective, category N⟨N⟩, into an adverb, for example of category S⟨N⟩⟨S⟨N⟩⟩, so ' ly' has effective category S⟨N⟩⟨S⟨N⟩⟩⟨N⟨N⟩⟩.
One example of such pattern is an adverb followed by an adjective.
First, 快 kuai 'fast' in 11, for example, is an adjective, not an adverb and there is evidence for it.
Here's an example of before, used first as an adverb, then as a preposition: "Before I resign, I must confess before God and you... ........ So, when before, after and others are referring to a position in time instead of a physical location, they're called adverbs, not prepositions.
Second, Like Li and Thompson's, Li's description and analysis of the V-DE construction is incomplete in the sense that it fails to cover examples like 9 above, which involves an adverb phrase.
Here is an example of adverbs that don't need a hyphen: The quickly drying paint was bone dry within the hour.
An example of these heuristics is the removal of the NPs that begin with an adverb.
While it may be legitimate to define an adverb in terms of the adjective from which it has grown (for example, ridiculously - in a ridiculous manner), this sort of definition supposes that the word ridiculous is defined somewhere.
