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    This document discusses adverbials and adverb phrases. It defines adverbials as words that modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire sentences. It notes there are different types of adverbials including manner, temporal, spatial, and attitudinal. Adverb phrases can appear in various positions within sentences, such as initially, finally, preverbally, or postverbally. Additionally, some adverb phrases do not contain an actual adverb but are prepositional phrases that function similarly. The flexibility of adverb phrase positioning can sometimes make them difficult to identify.

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    This document discusses adverbials and adverb phrases. It defines adverbials as words that modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire sentences. It notes there are different types of adverbials including manner, temporal, spatial, and attitudinal. Adverb phrases can appear in various positions within sentences, such as initially, finally, preverbally, or postverbally. Additionally, some adverb phrases do not contain an actual adverb but are prepositional phrases that function similarly. The flexibility of adverb phrase positioning can sometimes make them difficult to identify.

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    This document discusses adverbials and adverb phrases. It defines adverbials as words that modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or entire sentences. It notes there are different types of adverbials including manner, temporal, spatial, and attitudinal. Adverb phrases can appear in various positions within sentences, such as initially, finally, preverbally, or postverbally. Additionally, some adverb phrases do not contain an actual adverb but are prepositional phrases that function similarly. The flexibility of adverb phrase positioning can sometimes make them difficult to identify.

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    TYPES OF ADVERBIALS

    "[The class of adverbial] includes manner and degree adverbs (e.g. happily, clumsily, quickly, very),
    temporal adverbials (e.g. now, when, today), spatial adverbials (here, north, up, across), attitudinal
    adverbials (certainly, hopefully), modal adverbials (not, no, probably, etc.), expectation adverbials (only,
    even, again), and textual adverbials (firstly, finally)." (W. McGregor, Semiotic Grammar. Oxford University
    Press, 1997)

    PLACEMENT OF ADVERBIALS

    sentence initial[Yesterday], I ran a marathon.

    sentence finalI ran a marathon [yesterday].

    preverbalI [always] run well in the heat.

    postverbalI handed the baton [quickly] to the next runner.

    within the verb groupI have [never] won a race.

    An adverb phrase (or adverbial phrase) is a word group with an adverb as its head. This adverb may be
    accompanied by modifiers or qualifiers.

    An adverb phrase can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or even an entire sentence or main
    clause. As show below, it can appear in a number of different positions in a sentence.

    EXAMPLES AND OBSERVATIONS

    The Cheshire Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of its tail.

    The players responded surprisingly well to all the pressures of the playoffs.

    The best way to preserve the flavor and texture of fresh vegetables is to cook them as quickly as
    possible.

    As quickly as possible we cleaned the fish and placed them in coolers.

    The air was warm, stirred only occasionally by a breeze.

    Only occasionally is there a rumble in the sky or a hint of rain.

    "If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon." (James Russell Lowell)

    Snow fell much earlier than usual.


    "Bernie watched Jim's face for a reaction. Surprisingly enough, he grinned." (Beverly Barton, Close
    Enough to Kill. Kensington, 2011)

    My daughter's choice of driving music is, surprisingly enough, classic rock.

    ADVERBIAL PHRASES WITHOUT ADVERBS

    Adverbial phrases are so-called because they can occur in the same range of positions as single adverbs;
    but many such adverbial phrases, paradoxically, do not contain an adverb.

    Such adverb-less adverbial phrases are typically prepositional phrases, as [italicized] in the examples
    below:

    - On Friday night, I'm playing squash.

    - Their marriage broke up in the most painful way.

    - May I, on behalf of the shareholders, congratulate you?

    (Jame R. Hurford, Grammar: A Student's Guide.

    POSITIONING ADVERB PHRASES

    "Like adverbs, adverb phrases can cause confusion because there is some flexibility in where they occur
    within sentences, and even in modifying the sentence structure. As well, adverb phrases are sometimes
    embedded into other phrases.

    "Examples are:

    a. 'Laura, a better, gentler, more beautiful Laura, whom everybody, everybody loved dearly and tenderly.'
    [Norris]

    [ADVERB PHRASE]

    b. 'He had taken her hand sympathizingly, forgivingly, but his silence made me curious.' [Michelson]

    [ADVERB PHRASE]
    c. 'David, on the lowest step, was very evidently not hearing a word of what was being said.' [Porter]

    [ADVERB PHRASE EMBEDDED INTO VERB PHRASE]

    Our first example identifies an adverb phrase following the verb loved; the next example shows an
    adverb phrase following the noun hand and removed from the verb it modifies; the third example has an
    adverb phrase embedded into a verb phrase was . . . hearing. Such flexibility makes it more difficult to
    identify these phrases; therefore, noting the head adverb can be of help." (Bernard O'Dwyer, Modern
    English Structures: Form, Function, and Position. Broadview, 2006)

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