Adverbs never qualify Nouns or Pronouns

[Barman]

I learnt that Adverbs never qualify Nouns or Pronouns. This is the work of Adjectives. I have mentioned a sentence below:

1) I am, yours sincerely, Vijoy.

In this sentence, the 'sincerity' implied in yours sincerely refers to the speaker, not to the person addressed. Here, sincerely doesn't modify the adjective element in yours but qualifies am. Could you please explain in detail?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I learnt that adverbs never qualify nouns or pronouns. This is the work of adjectives. I have found the sentence below:

1) I am, yours sincerely, Vijoy.

In this sentence, the 'sincerely' implied in yours sincerely refers to the speaker, not to the person addressed. Here, sincerely doesn't modify the adjective element in yours but qualifies am. Could you please explain in detail?

I can't explain in detail, so I'll explain in brief:

It's an odd way to end a letter. "Yours sincerely" and "Sincerely yours" are more common, so let's talk about those.

Sincerely tells how I am yours: I sincerely am yours.

We also often say, "Yours truly." It works the same way. The shorter ending "Sincerely" is also common and means the same thing.


PS: Only capitalize proper nouns and the first letter of each sentence.

 

[Tdol]

I would use:

I am sincerely yours,

Vijay

However, it is more natural to me to say simply Yours sincerely. Americans seem to prefer, though this may be my impression, Sincerely yours.

 

[Skrej]

I learnt that Adverbs never qualify Nouns or Pronouns. This is the work of Adjectives. I have mentioned a sentence below:

1) I am, yours sincerely, Vijoy.

In this sentence, the 'sincerity' implied in yours sincerely refers to the speaker, not to the person addressed. Here, sincerely doesn't modify the adjective element in yours but qualifies am. Could you please explain in detail?

'Yours' is a possessive pronoun, not an adjective (there is no 's' on the 2nd person possessive adjective). Since adverbs can only modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, the only possible word it can modify in this sentence is the verb 'am'. Every other word in this sentence is a noun or pronoun. The sincerity doesn't refer to the person, but to the state of being (am) - to what degree or extent I am yours.