adverbial
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- adjective
- /ædˈvɜrbiəl/
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adverbial
- Understanding how to use an adverbial expression can improve your writing style.
- adverbial clause
- adverbial phrase
- adverbial expressions
Examples
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Stories with no time references received 0 points; with sequencers only, they received 1 point; and with a full adverbial clause, they received 2 points.
Academic text (2012) -
An adverbial clause can change the meaning of a sentence based on timing or condition.
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Back is an adverbial particle, so that gets more stressed.
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The negative adverbial 'oxi no', however, can.
Academic text (2006) -
Context effects have been demonstrated for some types of adverbial quantifiers.
Academic text (1990) -
The inherent plurality of most of our adverbial expressions is easy to see.
Academic text (1997) -
Vero possumus means "truly we can," the vero seems to be adverbial in meaning, like vere.
Blog text (4) -
Furthermore, AAVE allows one to delete if from adverbial clauses like "If you got some ..." (Dillard 6364).
Academic text (2003) -
Examiners were to note the use of conjunctive sequencers to link events, such as then, and then, or next, and the production of any adverbial clauses of time, such as "when the girl came back, she looked in the cabinet" (with a tensed verb in the when-clause).
Academic text (2012) -
In the sentence 'She ran quickly,' the phrase 'quickly' serves as an adverbial modifier of the verb.
Compounds
- Formal
A word or phrase that shows something unexpected compared with the main idea
A group of words that says when something will happen or what must happen first, often starting with if
- Specialized
A word that shows how someone does something, like quickly or quietly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The adjective adverbial comes from the same Latin parts ad- 'to' and verbum 'word', related to the word adverb. It means 'like an adverb', so something called adverbial modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.