How can 'twice' be an adverb?

I’m twice your age. (Oxford Dictionaries)

It looks like ‘twice’ is a preposition to me, yet it’s an adverb. On what procedure do you think in your brain, can this be an adverb?

Answer

You can make an argument that it is an adverb:

In the sentence "I am your age", the word "am" expresses a relationship between the subject "I" and the phrase "your age". If I insert the word "twice", it modifies "am", changing the relationship between them. I don't think this works particularly well; I feel like "twice" modifies the following phrase, instead. If I say "I am twice", I ask, "Twice what?" It feels incomplete.

I think it makes more sense to analyze it another way. I would say "age" is a noun modified by the determiner "your" to form the phrase "your age"; this in turn is modified by the predeterminer "twice" to form the phrase "twice your age". This phrase is linked to the subject "I" by the verb "am".