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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.
Many phrase types have the latter function, including adverbs and adverb phrases, however adverbs don't generally function as complements of the verb BE. Furthermore adverbs are not modifiable by either right or straight: Complements of BE. The comments were erroneously. * (adverb complement)- wrong; The comments were locally. * (adverb ...
129 2. 3. Alas, no. It's still an adverb. The construction Here/There is/are Noun Phrase allows the adverb to be fronted, with the subject Noun Phrase moved to the end, as the new information. It's said either referring to a physical place (pointing is appropriate), or metaphorically to refer to things that are being said in the conversation.
The phrase the literate is what is known as a fused Modifier-head noun phrase (fused Modifier-head NP, for short). This noun phrase has an elipted noun which, although missing, is understandable from the context. The head word in this noun phrase is the word literate. Althought is the Head of the noun phrase, it is also understood as a Modifier ...
Thus, since the to-infinitive has the structure: to + verb, and the verb cannot be an object- it is more of a state or intention or an action- 'to' in this structure cannot be a preposition. If it is definitely not a preposition then since it modifies a verb, indicating an 'intention', and an adverb by definition modifies a verb, 'to' is an adverb.
Circle the adverb or adjective phrase in each sentence, then tell what kind it is. My question is : Which is the preposition phrase in the question below doing the function of adverb or adjective phrase ? Many of the viewers responded to the poll. I suggested (( to the poll )) = ADV phrase modifying the verb responded, but as you see one book ...
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.
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.
I guess because of noun phrase order ("David's green frog" vs. "green David's frog"), because it avoids having to add them as exceptions to the "singular count nouns require a determiner" rule, and because possessives don't coexist with "a/the" in noun phrases ("a green book" vs. "a David's book"). But of course there is more to the story.