adverbial - use in sentences

Noun used with modifier

  • place: Jacobs' assessment of the place adverbial in ( 42 ), however, has to be rejected.

Modifies a noun

  • adjunct: The cleft sentence is one way that English can emphasize an adverbial adjunct.
  • clause: However, an adverbial clause which contains another clause is called a complex clause.
  • phrase: Were James's readers to interpret his use of this adverbial phrase to mean 2000 years?
  • particle: Up to in some contexts is a sequence of adverbial particle - preposition.
  • theory: First, some version of perceptual subjectivism is probably correct, with the adverbial theory being the more promising of the two main alternatives.
  • form: There are however a number of adverbs which are only ( or primarily ) used in the adverbial form.

Preposition: in

  • function: I shall therefore concern myself entirely with its predicates, which must, in the nature of the case, be adverbial in function.

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