let's talk about adverbial phrases
adverbial phrases same concept we know the word adverb we know that it means
a word that gives more information or that describes a verb an adjective another adverb
or it could modify an entire sentence by the way this is an adverb like when you say however
these ones are called conjunctive adverbs so an adverb can modify a verb an adjective
an adverb or an entire sentence so what is an adverbial phrase very simple in fact easy peasy
what do you mean issa it's a phrase that acts like an ant focus functions as an adverb i did not say
it includes an advocate i said it functions as an adverb
it acts like an adverb it does not necessarily have to include an adverb he said what do you
mean i understood nothing now you're gonna understand when i show you some examples
let's have a read he speaks in a loud voice he is the subject speaks is the verb
speaks by the way is intransitive so there's no need to have an object here so what is in allowed
voice in is a preposition a is a determiner loud is an adjective voice is a noun okay how is this
related to the sentence the entire group is adding more information to the word speaks this entire
group of words describes the verb which is speaks how does he speak in a loud voice if this group
of words is adding more information to describe a verb this means it's not an adjective it's an
adverb and you can simply replace it by a one word adverb you can simply say he speaks loudly
and loudly is very easy for you to recognize as an ad same concept another example ali drives at high
speed ali some people say ali like muhammad ali so this is like sarah and sarah suzanne and susan ali
ali this depends on your destination where you want to travel to ali drives at high speed
by the way the word drives here is intransitive there's no need to have an object in this case
you can have an object if you want to but in this case it's intransitive at high speed this
phrase is adding more information to drives how does he drive at high speed so it is an adverb
we can simply replace it by one word adverb and we can simply say ali drives fast
the child sat beside his mother beside his mother we have a group of words and this is a phrase
i'm not going to say why this is a phrase because you should know
and this group of words is adding more information to the verb sat where did he sit beside his mother
you can simply replace this phrase by a one word adverb and you can simply say the child said he
and by the way if you don't know an adverb does not only answer the question how
somebody does something adverbs answer the questions how when why and where
so in the first two examples we said how did he speak in the second one how does he drive
in the third example where did he sit yeah so you can answer the question of why when where and how
the government will react in a short time how
will the government react in a short time so it is functioning as an adverb
so when will the government react in a short time we can simply replace it by
a one word adverb which is soon in this case the government will react soon or shortly yeah both
of them are one word adverbs focus with me in the first example the entire phrase does not include
an adverb in is a preposition a is a determinant loud is an adjective voice is a noun none of them
is an adverb yet it is called an adverbial phrase because the function is an adverbs function
in fact none of these examples include any adverb i'm talking about the ones to the
left side of the screen but all of them function as adverbs why because they answer the questions
why and what
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