• In linguistics, an adverbial phrase ("AdvP") is a multi-word expression operating adverbially: its syntactic function is to modify other expressions, including...
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  • English grammar, an adverbial (abbreviated adv) is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial clause or adverbial phrase) that modifies or more...
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  • adverbial adjuncts or disjuncts but differ in syntax from adverbial phrases and adverbial prepositional phrases, as indicated below. Unlike adverbial...
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  • adverbial phrase is a combination of words that perform the same function. The German language includes several different kinds of adverbial phrases....
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  • This is called the adverbial function and may be performed by an individual adverb, by an adverbial phrase, or by an adverbial clause. Adverbs are traditionally...
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  • and adverbial participles. An adverbial participle (or a participial phrase/clause based on such a participle) plays the role of an adverbial phrase in...
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  • noun phrase. Similarly, adjectival phrases and adverbial phrases function as if they were adjectives or adverbs, but with other types of phrases, the...
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  • prepositional phrases, such as in the drawing room, of his aunt adnominal adverbs and adverbials, such as (over) there in the noun phrase the man (over)...
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  • the complement phrase the man (a noun phrase), and the adjunct phrase through the window (an adverbial phrase and prepositional phrase). The third example...
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  • X is usually a noun phrase (although it can also be a prepositional phrase, and in some cases an adjectival or adverbial phrase). The focus is on X,...
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    patients, and patients able to swallow. Per os (/ˌpɜːrˈoʊs/; P.O.) is an adverbial phrase meaning literally from Latin "through the mouth" or "by mouth". The...
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  • usually requires an additional preposition to form an adverbial phrase (see Chinese locative phrases) English: ten kilometers away, ten months ago (both...
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  • In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial adjunct that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but...
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  • are staying in a hotel. *We are staying. Head-driven phrase structure grammar describes adverbial complements as part of the verbs' subcategorization frame...
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  • coldness nor warmth." 3. An adjective (or adjectival phrase) or an adverb (or an adverbial phrase) paired with an ensuing conjunction, e.g. - "Successes...
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    preposition. Many verbs can be complemented by a prepositional phrase that functions adverbially: a. Don't stand on the table. This construction is sometimes...
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  • German grammar Nouns Verbs Articles Adjectives Pronouns Adverbial phrases Conjugation Sentence structure Modal particles v t e...
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    certain adverbial "stative complements" which follow the verb. The character de (得) followed by an adjective functions the same as the phrase "-ly" in...
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  • adverb first prepositional phrase first (see locative inversion, directive inversion) After the two latter types of adverbial, only one-word lexical verb...
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  • is used to emphasize an adverbial phrase, a predicative, an object, or an inner verbal phrase in a sentence. The subject phrase, at the beginning of an...
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  • split infinitive is a grammatical construction in which an adverb or adverbial phrase separates the "to" and "infinitive" constituents of what was traditionally...
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  • Phrase: the head of an adjective phrase (AP) is an adjective, which can take as a complement, for example, an adverbial phrase or adpositional phrase...
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  • option is that "per procurationem" could be understood as a complete adverbial phrase in itself — "by the agency [of another]", without a dependent genitive...
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  • can use any kind of adverbial phrase or native adverb mentioned above. But beware of modal verbs, they change the meaning and phrase of the sentence. Compound...
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    progressively: 896  and verbs of motion may be dropped before an adverb or adverbial phrase of motion.: 897  Many verbs have strong or irregular forms which are...
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  • or adverbial phrase) that does not contribute to the meaning of a sentence, but is used to intensify its emotional force. Often such words or phrases are...
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    wishes. Such uses are often accompanied by frequency adverbs and adverbial phrases such as always, sometimes, often, usually, from time to time, rarely...
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    only those in secondary school. The term "outback" derives from the adverbial phrase referring to the back yard of a house[citation needed], and came to...
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  • Swedish, instead using subject–verb–object word order after an adverb or adverbial phrase (as in English, compare Idag jag tog bussen ("Today I took the bus")...
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    I saw them digging a hole. We prefer it standing over there. As an adverbial phrase, where the role of subject of the nonfinite verb is usually understood...
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