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Hanuman_2000 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Last night

Sir,

Last night, all day, every day


these are adverbs or adverbial or adver phrase.

such as

1.I like to play all day.

2.Last night, I could not sleep.

3.I go to school every day.


Thanks.
  

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I think they are adverbials. 'An adverbial is a group of words that functions in the same way as an Adverb. ' But do we have adverb phrase this expression?

  • I think they are adverbials.
  • 'An adverbial is a group of words that functions in the same way as an Adverb.
  • ' But do we have adverb phrase this expression?
  • I don't think so.
  • But I also want to know, if adverbials can work with 'be'?
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I think they are adverbials.

'An adverbial is a group of words that functions in the same way as an Adverb. '

But do we have adverb phrase this expression? I don't think so.

But I also want to know, if adverbials can work with 'be'? It seems they can, eg.
'-Where's the book?
-It's on the desk.'

Be+ adverbials (which functions in the same way as
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Terminology always get me down, too. Here's something you may find interesting:

The word "adverb" is a noun, and if we add -al to it we get "adverbial", which is an adjective. If we add -al to the noun "adjective", we get "adjectival".

"adverb" and "adverbial" are the same thing. Use the adjectival form "adverbial" to modify a noun, like this,

adverbial phrase

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