It often marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun ; however, it can also indicate various other relationships than possession: certain verbs may take arguments in the genitive case, and it may have adverbial uses ( see Adverbial genitive ).

Adverbial clauses express when, why, where, opposition, and conditions, As with all dependent clauses, they cannot stand alone.

Adverbial phrases can be preceded by degree words such as very, extremely, rather and quite.

* Adverbial phrase: It was greedily and speedily that Homer Simpson drank his beer.

* Adverbial clause: It was because she was so lonely all the time that drove her to move out.

Adverbial Clauses in Barbareño Chumash Narrative Discourse.

Adverbial clauses modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs.

Hypothetically, if English had a more developed system of phonetic complements parallel with the scripts mentioned above, there might be a convention of writing 2ble for ' double ', 2ple for ' couple ', 2uary for ' February ' ( the second month ), 2ary for ' binary ', 2r for ' pair ', o2r for ' other ' ( which historically meant ' second '), 2in for ' twin ', 2ni ' Gemini ' (" the Twins "), etc.

During the night, MacDonald had been rejoined by the second division of his Corps and although theoretically 23 battalions strong, this force had diminished complements and could bearly align 8, 000 men.

A second technology which complements and enhances the effectiveness of the Void Pantograph is the Verification Grid.

Górecki specifies exact complements for the string forces: 16 first violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos, and 8 double basses.

Autoroute 50, approximately 3 km north of Thurso along Route 317 complements Route 148 as Thurso's second connection to Gatineau and Ottawa ; however, the connection along Autoroute 50 to Montreal between Thurso and Grenville is still incomplete.

There are, however, some wonderful chapters at the beginning of the second part, concerning the reactions of the Swedes in adversity.

In the second and third chapters of Revelation the new version retains, however, the old phrase `` angel of the church '' which Biblical scholars have previously interpreted as meaning bishop.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time ; however, they both had second thoughts about their relationship.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

The second sermon given by Paneloux, however, suggests that his faith has been shaken.

Philip, however, declined the contest, and formed a second alliance with Alexander by giving him his daughter ( Alexander I's niece ) Cleopatra in marriage ( 336 BC ).

The Bridge Wars, however, were only short-lived and after the death of Scott La Rock prior to the group's second album, KRS began to concentrate on consciously focused music.

The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.

Critics do, however, acknowledge that the author of Daniel was familiar with the history of Near Eastern imperial power from the sixth to the second centuries.

The US version, however, has since 2001 taken on a significantly different format from the others in their second season, with a far stronger emphasis on strategy, competition and voting, where the public does not choose who to evict.

The second moment is, however, non-vanishing, being given by

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

Black is the color of mourning, and since Cretan families are notionally considered so extended as to include great-grandparents or second cousins ( although they may have little actual contact ) as well as all their respective in-laws, one is theoretically justified to be in continuous mourning for some relative or other, however distant.

It is not unheard-of, however, for a band to redo old tracks that originally left them displeased for an album re-release on a major label or a second edition.

The second season, however, had Japanese soundtrack ( not translated ) even though it was still American version.

The second seder, observed in some Jewish communities on the second night of Passover can, however, occur on Thursday night.

With thermal energy, however, there are often limits to the efficiency of the conversion to other forms of energy, as described by the second law of thermodynamics.

" Euripides however was more fortunate than the other tragedians in the survival of a second edition of his work, compiled in alphabetical order as if from a set of his collect works, but without scholia attached.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

The club remained competitive, however they could progress no further than the second week of the finals each year for the years of 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together — see for example the Calgary Fiddlers, and Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the worldwide phenomenon of Irish sessions.

In the second half of the twentieth century, however, there has been a gradual shift of political and economic power to Flanders, which, having modernized its economy, is now more wealthy and prosperous than its southern counterpart .< ref >" Belgium.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

and second, to increase uniformly the allotments to those States whose allotments are below their maximums, with adjustments to prevent the allotment of any State from thereby exceeding its maximum.

The editor, sports editor, and student business manager are chosen in December, the new staff assuming responsibility for the paper at the beginning of the second semester.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

The video signal is amplified and then switched, in synchronism with the three ultraviolet light sources which are sequenced by the rotating mirror so that during one-twentieth of a second only one wavelength, corresponding to red, green, or blue, is seen.

In most places, there are two generations a year, a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer.

In the second, the fixed elements are the lines which join the vertex, P, to the two intersections of **zg and the plane of the pencil which do not lie on the multiple secant.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

but, second, `` that the semantic groups are surprisingly unvarying in their average persistence '' ( as between M-K and I-E ).

This second conclusion, independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are, cannot be ignored.

But in the second subtype, which I take to be the one more frequently applied, only the operating expenses and not the `` cost of capital '' or `` fair return '' are apportioned directly among the various classes of service.

A second edition is in preparation, and there are long range plans for a third.

The second photocathode and both phosphor surfaces are deposited on the fiber plate substrates.

If baby teeth are retained too long, the incoming second teeth may be prevented from emerging at the normal time or may have to erupt in the wrong place.

Peanuts are the world's second most important legume.

In the first courtyard there are some fine bas-reliefs and friezes, and in the second a series of delightful terraced roof gardens above an ivy-covered wall.

The second reason for being concerned with the dichotomy between faculty members who are part of the `` in-group '' that owns and operates the institution and those who are merely paid employees, is, therefore, the baneful effect on the caliber of the teaching itself.

The majority of the clocks are caesium clocks ; the definition of the SI second is written in terms of caesium.

Frenzied women like Sibyls from whose lips the god speaks are recorded in the Near East as Mari in the second millennium BC.