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## Adverbial expressions 

5 Having a lot of words ending in -mente  can often sound heavy. To avoid this, Italian sometimes uses adverbial phrases instead of single words. These do the same job as one-word adverbs, and indeed they do usually correspond to one-word English adverbs in ‘-ly’. These adverbial expressions are most often constructed with con  (with), sometimes with senza  (without), followed by a noun: 

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