I have an English worksheet where I am supposed to use the word "party" as an adverb.
"I went partying" – Is this correct? (It answers the question, "where did I go ?") I couldn't think of anything else…
Is the word "partying" used here a noun or an adverb of place?
My understanding is that if a verb is followed by a preposition and then a 'place', the 'place' is a noun. (For example: I went to the party. Here 'party' is a noun.) Is my understanding correct?
Best Answer
As you realized in the comments, your sentence uses the word as a verb.
I think the worksheet has an error (they probably meant "adjective", as in "a party leader"). Or it could just be poorly designed.
As a native speaker, I've never heard "party" used as an adverb, nor do I know of any derivatives of "party" that are adverbs. This is backed up by every regular English dictionary that I checked.
The one dictionary that does list it as an adverb is the Oxford English Dictionary (because it's a historical dictionary and contains some very rare words).
Although it's almost certainly not what the worksheet is looking for, there is one definition in the OED for "party" as an adverb (it just means "partly"), which is marked as "Now rare (only in Heraldry)". I found an example on Wikipedia: