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Hi everyone,I badly need your help with adverbial adjuct, conjuct and disjunct. I read Quirk's Book already but instead of getting full understanding, I am becoming puzzled distinguishing them. Can anyone possible help me with this? [:-S]Thanking you for your responses.

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I found the following on conjuctive adverbs in Understanding Grammar, by Paul Roberts.

A number of adverbs not only modify verbs or clauses but also serve as connectives between two clauses. The principal forms so used are nevertheless, however, moreover, hence, consequently, nonetheless, accordingly, then, besides, likewise, indeed, therefore:

-Sven was uncertain of his reception. Nevertheless he rang the doorbell.
-All airports were closed down; consequently, we could not land.
-Aunt Flo has been seriously ill; she seems, however, to be mending rapidly.
-There was no doubt about Wiltshire's courage; he had, indeed, been five times decorated for bravery.

We might lengthen the list of conjuctive adverbs by adding such word groups as in the meantime, on the other hand, that is, in the first place, on that account. Actually, the difference between these and the one-word conjunctive adverbs is little more than a convention of spelling.

These words are sometimes called coördinating conjunctions and are thus grouped with and, but, or, nor. But there is an important distinction. The coördinating conjunction must stand between the clauses it joins; but the conjunctive adverb, like most other adverbs, may be shifted about within the second clause:

-Nevertheless, he rang the doorbell.
-He nevertheless rang the doorbell.
-Ne rang the doorbell nevertheless.

There is also the distinction that the conjunctive adverb is felt to have some kind of adverbial force; but this is less important.

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