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4. Essentially Both are Modifiers - which provide additional information. Adverbial Clause always has a Subject and Verb and provides more information about the verb, adjective,adverb. It answers questions: How, when, where, why, to what extent, in what manner etc.
2. This phrase is both prepositional and adverbial. Some prepositional phrases are adverbial. Such as "In the morning" or "In the middle of the night." Right. Prepositional is part of its form -- it starts with a preposition. Adverbial is part of its function -- it works as a temporal adverb in the sentence.
With the exception of one special type of adverb, they don't. At least, the two prepositional phrases in your example modify verb phrases. The structure is this: I [VP [VP [VP ate a bag of popcorn] [PP at 8'o clock]] [PP in a movie theater]] That is "ate a bag of popcorn" is a VP (verb phrase), it is modified by the PP "at 8 o'clock" forming a ...
1. Closed 11 years ago. Here are three ways to say the same thing. I wonder if there are particular rules regarding to the position of adverb phrases: Then play those passages over and over again in your memory. Or, Then play those passages in your memory over and over again. Or, Then play over and over again those passages in your memory.
In both examples, "only" is an adverb functioning as a focusing modifier in the bracketed noun phrases. Focusing adverbs modify a wide range of constructions, including noun phrases, but they do not modify nouns or nominals, as opposed to noun phrases. [3] I don't eat meat, but [only fish]. Here, fish is an NP consisting of just a noun.
For example, one college writing program describes a participle as "a verbal that is used as an adjective" and analyzes "removing his coat" as an adjective. Yet other sources state that participle phrases can be either adverbial or adjectival and suggest that the participle phrase in my example sentence is an adverb.
@Cerberus, That makes sense. However, the -ing word which is modified by an adjective acts only like a noun -- it has no verbal properties. It can be preceded by an article like other nouns, and modified by other noun modifiers, and it cannot take an adverb modifier (unlike a verb).
0. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. There are no other adverbs in the sentence, so that's ruled out. The only real possibilities are the verb phrase "am with", and the adjective "best". The term "arguably" means that something may not be objectively true, but you're expressing a common opinion that it's true.
In British English the standard word order for adverbs in end-position is manner-place-time(easy to remember as the initial letters are in alphabetical order m-p-t). However, to avoid too many adverbs in end-position and for emphasis I would suggest to put the adverb of time in front-position.
But this people used and in between those adverb phrases. My room was in the ship and on the 5th floor. To me, this and seemed redundant to me. Since "in the ship" and "on the 5th floor" are adverb phrases (or are those complements) that modify "was", a to be verb, I thought it better to omit the word and. My room was in the ship on the 5th floor.