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asked Nov 9, 2013 at 17:35. APPLE. 437 4 8 16. 2. An adverbial clause has a verb and often a subject (you can always tell what the subject is, but it isn't always present). An adverbial phrase is what's left after an adverbial clause has been chewed up. – John Lawler. Nov 9, 2013 at 20:42. Thank you John.
I'm struggling to identify when a participle phrase is adjectival vs. adverbial. For example: Turning into the parking lot, the girl could see that lines were already forming. ^ "Turning into the parking lot = Adverbial present-participle phrase" --> but is it modifying the girl, or her seeing that lines were already forming? Isn't the girl the ...
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.
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.
And as you indicate, not just the noun or the verb phrase. I don't call 'sentence modifiers' 'adverbs/adverbials' as they modify other than just the verb phrase. The situation is subtly different from that when adjectives obviously referring to the following noun are used in absolute constructions: Exhausted after their climb, the boys sat on a ...
It's a preposition phrase, since it has the preposition "by" as head. You could call it an adverbial, but adjunct is a better term. It functions here as a modifier in clause structure, more specifically one of means. Incidentally, the reason that the term 'adjunct' is preferred to 'adverbial' is two-fold: (1) It is very unsatisfactory to have a ...
Unclear: the phrase “the 'one day after' reading” is ambiguous and non-specific. Untrue: Suppose the speaker eats breakfast infrequently, or on occasion holds a prayer breakfast, etc. Untrue: Suppose the speaker eats breakfast infrequently, or on occasion holds a prayer breakfast, etc.
— Simple adverbial phrase at the beginning of a sentence. Her only option was to support Mark Anthony once again. But, if he should perish, it would be the end of her. — Not a simple adverbial phrase but a clause. She knew her cause was lost and, in a fit of final despair, had a serpent brought in to extinguish her life with its venom.
The term adverbial is a bane to the principled study of language. It is the epitome of the worst problem in the field of language study - a problem which should by now be regarded as a schoolkid problem - the problem of not understanding the difference between syntactic functions (or grammatical relations) and parts of speech or types of phrase.
It is not possible to categorically state that the prepositional phrase for sure is always acting adverbially because that assessment can be made only within a surrounding syntactic context. Sometimes it is an adverbial modifier phrase and sometimes it is an adjectival modifier phrase. You can determine which applies by swapping it for a single ...