adverb vs apposition

adverb

noun
  • A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. 

  • In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine. 

  • A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses. (modifying a verb) 

verb
  • To make into or become an adverb. 

apposition

noun
  • The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases. 

  • A public disputation by scholars. 

  • A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things. 

  • The growth of successive layers of a cell wall. 

  • Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required. 

  • The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other. 

  • A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence. 

  • A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London. 

How often have the words adverb and apposition occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )