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Adverbials and adjuncts

Adverbial is a word or phrase that modifies other modifier or predicate. It answers such questions like “how?”, “where?”, “when?”, “why?”.

Adjunct is an optional adverbial that may be excluded from sentence without losing it's sense and without violating grammar.

Adverbial phrase may be expressed by:

Examples needed


Word order

Typically adverbials follow the word they modify, however adverbials which modify adjective may precede it (specially in colloquial speech). If there are many adverbials modifying the same member of sentence, their order is the following:

  1. Place (where?)
  2. Manner (how? why?)
  3. Time (when?)

Example needed

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