What does adverbial mean in English?

Adverbials in English explain the place, time, reason, purpose, result, condition, direction, degree, way and accompanying adverbials.

Adverbials generally take adverbs, prepositional phrases, participles and participle phrases, infinitives or words or phrases equivalent to adverbs. Its position is usually placed at the end of a sentence, but it can also be placed at the beginning or in a sentence.

Adverbials are words used to modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs or the whole sentence, explaining concepts such as time, place, degree and way.

Adverbial form

Adverbs are generally used as adverbials in sentences.

He speaks English very well. He speaks English very well.

Among them, "hen" is an adverbial of degree, which is used to modify "very good" and "very good" is an adverbial of degree to modify "speaking".

2. infinitives can be used as adverbials of purpose in sentences.

I came to see you specially. I came to see you.

3. Preposition phrases

She usually gets up at seven in the morning.

She usually gets up at seven in the morning.

"In the morning" is a prepositional phrase, which is used as an adverbial of time in sentences.

The boy was praised for his bravery.

The boy was praised for his bravery.

"For his bravery" is a prepositional phrase, which is used as an adverbial of reason in a sentence to explain why the boy is praised.

4. Clauses as adverbials

/kloc-When she was 0/2 years old, she began to live in Dalian.

She/kloc-started living in Dalian at the age of 0/2.

Here When leads to adverbial of time, and the clause acts as adverbial of time in the main clause.

If I am not busy tomorrow, I will play football with you.

If I am not busy tomorrow, I will play football with you.

Here If leads the conditional adverbial, and the clause acts as the conditional adverbial clause in the main clause.

5. past participles as adverbials

Faced with this situation, what should we do?

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