Recently, I mentioned in a column that adverbs aren't just those "ly" words that modify verbs. A Word, Please: See if your adverbial is a member of the adverb club - Los Angeles Times ...

Phrases are in bold; objects of preposition are italicized. In 2016 (answering the question “when”) and for the first time (answering the question “under what condition”). Both are adverbial ...

A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. So here, 'earlier today' is a fronted adverbial. Start activity ...

A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.

An adverbial can be any word, phrase or clause that modifies either a verb, an adjective or a complete sentence to convey this information. In other words, adverbials aren’t necessarily adverbs.

So, in the explanation above, “quite simply” is a fronted adverbial (gold star if you spotted it). If you think back to school, an adverb is a word that describes a verb; it tells you how an action is ...

The phrase as fast as a lightning does the function of an adverb, describing how the dog ran and it is an adverbial phrase. So, add the phrase and make your sentences go ZING! POP!

“I don’t stay up nights worrying,” said John Lennon in 1965. “Summers I used to cover Missouri,” wrote Thornton Wilder in 1934. “I went over there afternoons,&#8… ...