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Daisy Black Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Composite phrasal adverbs
Can it be that phrases - "in a moment" and "in an undertone" are composite phrasal adverbs?
Scheme: preposition + noun: at hand, at home, by heart, on horseback, on foot, in turn, to date
Scheme: preposition + noun: at hand, at home, by heart, on horseback, on foot, in turn, to date
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Daisy Black at hand, at home, by heart, on horseback, on foot, in turn, to date These ones are more strongly idiomatic.
- Daisy Black at hand, at home, by heart, on horseback, on foot, in turn, to date These ones are more strongly idiomatic.
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Daisy Black at hand, at home, by heart, on horseback, on foot, in turn, to dateThese ones are more strongly idiomatic.
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My task is to find adverbs in sentences.So I want to know can these phrases be adverbs?
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They are prepositional phrases. And yes, prepositional phrases can function as adverbs.
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