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. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.

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 ...

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 ...

“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… ...

This quintessentially polite request was made by Forum member Na30r some years back: “If you don’t mind please explain the ‘reducing of adverb clauses.’” (When someone makes a request in such nuanced ...

Note that all three have been made to work as adverbial phrase modifiers of the verb "basked." In actual writing, the need to use parallel structures in sentences won't always be apparent at first. In ...