Phenomenally, monumentally and fantastically are all _____?

I'm not good with the terms. Are these adverbs? What are they? I'm on a writing spree, I'm too baked to remember and scrolling through google search pages will kill my high. So I would like some human assistance. Sorry if this is a shit question, you know, I never paid attention in English class. Feel free to flame if this inquiry upsets you. Otherwise cheers.

 

Yes.

 

you could have gotten the answer on your own in a split-second, if you'd simply googled one of them...

 

That's the spirit, mum Have another dig.

 

This could be referred to as a pun! A fantastically constructed pun!

 

I'm a poet and I didn't know it!

I'm either gonna wake up tomorrow and think my writing's gold or cringe. Fun experiment though.

 

I often forget these sort of things as well, and in fact I need to brush up in this area. Yet more things to do...

 

sanco...

'twasn't a dig!... it's called being 'helpful'... ever heard the old saw that goes, 'give a man a fish...'???

with snide comments like that, you're the only one slinging digs, mate...

 

Now now kids, settle down.


When you come down off your high, Sanco, Grammar Girl has a nice synopsis on adverbs and words ending in -ly. It may help you remember next time if you invest 5 minutes reinforcing your knowledge base, because your question is bound to come up again.

 

Haha thanks for the help guys.

And mamma, I know you weren't having a dig! I wasn't being snide, I was being jovial haha.

 

didn't come across as joviality with that tongue-out emoticon, sorry to say... 'nuff said...

love and hugs, maia

 

I think signifies a light heart so does as well. Perhaps that's just me.

 

The ever so complicated netiquette

 

Now, now. We're all pretty.

(I'm the prettiest, though.)

 

You can be the prettiest. I am obviously the humblest.

(just noticed that I highlighted the adverb. I'm on topic even when I'm off - amazing)

 

Oo oo. Dibs on "smartest".

 

You can have all that because I'm, hands down, the sexiest.

 

Oo la la!.

 

emoticons are the tools of the lazy.

 

... or the literacy-challenged. And to put it in terms they can understand:

 

I'm not sure how this topic changed to emoticons but the way I see them is they simply replace, in a very small way, what is lost when I cannot see one's face or hear one's tone as I read another's post. I'm confident that I am in no way literacy-challenged.

 

Cognito I'm am in no way literacie challeneged

 

No sad faces? Well how nice of you to boost the happiness of this forum, Cogito!

 

You missed the humorous intent. I guess I should have appended a smiley.

and as for my name,

 

And you missed the ironic intent.