About the adverbs in italian
It's said in the textbook that the adverbs in Italians don't change according the gender and number of the nouns and adjectives they modify...
But I can not understand the grammar of "tutta" in this sentence very well.
Ha una pronuncia tutta italiana!
If it is like what the textbook says, is the "tutta" not adverb? Is it an adjective?
We said, "Sei molto bello" and "Sei molto bella"...molto is not changed of course but why should tutta?
Search from various English teachers...
Answers · 3
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/tutta/ references to /pronuncia/, and it is used as an adjective, therefore it needs matching
with the noun.
In some (rare) cases /tutto/ means /completamente/ (completely) and in these cases it is an adverb.
Usually even in cases like:
a) ho preso tutto.
b) hai studiato tutto?
tutto is still an adjective, as the sentence actually has one of the possible meanings (surely known by its context) :
a1) ho preso tutto quello che c'e` (all that is there)
a2) ho preso tutto quello che ci serve (all that we need)
b1) hai studiato tutto cio` che dovevi studiare?
b2) hai studiato tutto quello che ti ha detto la maestra?
Note that /tutto quello/ is in turn another way to say /tutte le cose/,
but still leaving the meaning at an abstract level.
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