词组 | adverbials |
释义 | adverbials A noun, noun phrase, prepositional phrase, verbal phrase, or clause that functions in a sentence in the same way an adverb would is called by many grammarians an adverbial. A few typical examples might include these: • They arrived Monday. • I finished the book last week. • We left on a chartered bus. • She entered the competition hoping to set a new record. • You must make a greater effort to achieve your goals. • His house was broken into while he was away on vacation. It is only fair to warn you that different grammarians may put different limitations on the class of adverbials. If you are interested in learning more about the adverbial, you will find considerable detail in Sledd 1959 or Quirk et al. 1985 (nearly 175 pages in the latter). Adverbials are not mentioned very often in this book, but the term is frequently used in discussing matters of usage by the authors of composition handbooks. |
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