Meaning & use
some a adverb
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A grammar question asking whether the English word 'some' belongs to the adverb class.
See it in a sentence
The student asked, 'Is some an adverb?' and the teacher said no.
In 'some an adverb', the learner is checking the part of speech of each word.
A note on using this word
This is a question about grammar, not a single dictionary word: 'some' can be a determiner or pronoun, and 'a' is a determiner, so neither is normally an adverb. If you meant the adverb 'somewhat', that is a real adverb meaning 'a little'.
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