Sometimes a noun phrase can also function as an adjunct of the main clause predicate, thus taking on an adverbial function, e. g.

In grammar an adverbial is a word ( an adverb ) or a group of words ( an adverbial phrase or an adverbial clause ) that modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb.

Form refers to a word class — such as noun, verb, adjective, adverb, and preposition — as well as types of phrases, such as prepositional phrase, nominal clause, and adverbial clause.

For example, the function of a prepositional phrase in a sentence may be adverbial ; that is, it modifies a verb.

Therefore, ex post facto or ex postfacto is natively an adverbial phrase, a usage demonstrated by the sentence " He was convicted ex post facto ( i. e., from a law passed after his crime ).

A more detailed definition of the adjunct emphasizes its attribute as a modifying form, word, or phrase that depends on another form, word, or phrase, being an element of clause structure with adverbial function.

* She is certain of success-quite specifies certain of success in the adverbial phrase quite certain of success

: subject ( osebek ) + predicate ( povedek ) + object ( predmet ) + adverbial phrase ( prislovno določilo ).

where it is a cleft pronoun and X is usually a noun phrase ( although it can also be a prepositional phrase, and in some cases an adjectival or adverbial phrase ).

The other option is that " per procurationem " could be understood as a complete adverbial phrase in itself-" by the agency < of another >", without a dependent genitive.

However, they all share some grammatical similarities, such as discarding the Verb-second word order of Standard 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 ") to Standard Swedish Idag tog jag bussen (" Today took I the bus ").

This commonly used sentence adverbial phrase has been decried by some grammarians.

It is rarely correct to use this form of the phrase because it is seldom adverbial in intention.

Clearly, in the second sentence, in an hour has the same syntactic function, though it does not contain an adverb ; therefore, a prepositional phrase consisting of a preposition and a noun ( preceded by its article ) can function as an adverbial and is called an adverbial phrase.

( adverbial prepositional phrase )

One common way to gauge whether an English verb phrase is telic is to see whether such a phrase as in an hour, in the sense of " within an hour ", ( known as a time-frame adverbial ) can be applied to it.

Verbal and adverbial elements too participated in each epic diction, but it is for the present sufficient to mark the large nominal and adjectival supply of semantic near-equivalents, and to designate the members of any system of equivalents as basic formulas of the poetic language.

This function is called the adverbial function, and is realized not just by single words ( i. e., adverbs ) but by adverbial phrases and adverbial clauses.

An English adverb, which is derived from an adjective, is arranged in the German language under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence.

If an adjective ends in c, the adverbial ending is '- amente '.

* In Gaelic, an adverbial form is made by preceding the adjective with the preposition go ( Irish ) or gu ( Scottish Gaelic ), meaning ' until '.

* In Ukrainian, and analogously in Russian and some other Slavic languages, an adverb is formed by removing the adjectival suffices "- ий " "- а " or "- е " from an adjective, and replacing them with the adverbial "- о ".

:::( Although not strictly a use of the adessive this proximity difference is mirrored in adverbial forms such as täällä-around here and tässä-right here )

It is in the nature of grammatical conventions evolving over time that it is difficult to establish when they first became widely accepted, but both greater and lesser in these instances have over time become mere adjectives ( or adverbial constructs ), so losing their comparative connotation.

What had been expressed in lengthy adverbial constructions, such as " it is regrettable that …" or " it is fortunate that.

") is allowed because it obeys the subordinated clause ( adverbial ) formation rules of Spanish and English.

The word adverbial is also used as an adjective, meaning ' having the same function as an adverb '.

An adverbial is a construction that modifies, or describes, verbs.

In every sentence pattern, the adverbial is a clause element that tells where, when, why, or how.

Some grammarians use the term subordinate clause as a synonym for dependent clause, but in some grammars subordinate clause refers only to adverbial dependent clauses. There are also different types of dependent clauses like noun clauses, relative ( adjectival ) clauses, and adverbial clauses.

Controlled natural languages are subsets of natural languages whose grammars and dictionaries have been restricted in order to reduce or eliminate both ambiguity and complexity ( for instance, by cutting down on rarely used superlative or adverbial forms or irregular verbs ).

:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.

* adverbial clauses introduced by the following expressions: avant que ( before ), à moins que ( unless ), de peur / crainte que ( for fear that )

The series ' writing style, which was sometimes adverb-heavy, suggested a name for a type of adverbial pun promulgated in the 1960s, the " Tom Swifties ".

There are a large number of cases: absolutive (- Ø ), ergative (- e ), genitive (-( a ) k ), dative / allative (" to, for ") (- r ( a ) for human nouns ,-e for non-human nouns ), locative (" in, at ") (- a, only with non-human nouns ), comitative (- da ), equative (" as, like ") (- gin ), directive / adverbial (" towards ") (- š ( e )), ablative (" from ") (- ta, only with non-human nouns ).

The-e suffix is restricted in Esperanto for cases that are clearly adverbial.

The fundamental idea of the adverbial theory is that there is no need for such objects and the problems that they bring with them ( such as whether they are physical or mental or somehow neither ).

According to the adverbial theory, when, for example, I experience a silver elliptical shape ( as when viewing a coin from an angle ) I am in a certain specific state of sensing or sensory awareness or of being appeared to: I sense in a certain manner or am appeared to in a certain way, and that specific manner of sensing or of being appeared to accounts for the content of my experience: I am in a certain distinctive sort of experiential state.

The adverbial theory has the advantage of being metaphysically simpler, avoiding issues about the nature of sense-data, but we gain no real understanding of the nature of the states in question or of how exactly they account for the character of immediate experience.

Incorporation is a phenomenon by which a word, usually a verb, forms a kind of compound with, for instance, its direct object ( object incorporation ) or adverbial modifier, while retaining its original syntactic function.

Chinese scholars interpret the first title character ěr ( 爾 ; " you, your ; adverbial suffix ") as a phonetic loan character for the homophonous ěr ( 邇 ; " near ; close ; approach "), and believe the second yǎ ( 雅 ; " proper ; correct ; refined ; elegant ") refers to words or language.

Yet, this same verbal suffix is used after the verb ‘ to beat ’ which ends an independent non-finite clause that temporally precedes the following clause, but doesn ’ t modify it in any way that would be fit for an adverbial.

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 which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, " expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking.

In these functions they are like adverbial phrases, but due to their potentiality for greater explicitness, they are more often like prepositional phrases ( Greenbaum and Quirk, 1990 ):

* the locative participant: the location where an action takes place ; in languages with a Philippine-style voice system, spatial location is often at the same level in a clause as agents and patients, rather than being an adverbial clause, like in English ( see for a discussion of location in Tagalog ).

Conversely, a common way to gauge whether the phrase is atelic is to see whether such a phrase as for an hour ( a time-span adverbial ) can be applied to it.