Academic Writing for International Students of Business

Further common examples include:

3.4:Academic Vocabulary: Verbs and Adverbs 183

Time Degree Manner

recently clearly (un)surprisingly

increasingly particularly factually

originally broadly politically

presently highly locally

currently wholly alternatively

traditionally crucially similarly

continuously emphatically psychologically

7 Practice C

 Insert a suitable adverb from the table above into the gaps in the sentences.

(a) The new, low-cost mobile phone was popular, ___ with the young.

(b) ___, the internet was mainly used for academic purposes.

(c) Some courses are assessed purely by exams. ___, coursework may be
employed.

(d) ___, there has been growing concern about financing the health
service.

(e) There was strong opposition ___ to the proposal to build the dam.

(f) ___, the development should be acceptable environmentally.