All posts tagged "adjunct adverbial"
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Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are AdverbsThe other day I read a tweet that made some claims about adverbs: “The -s in “unawares,” as in “they were...
English AdverbsMay 1, 2019 -
Are ‘Yesterday,’ ‘Today’, and ‘Tomorrow’ Nouns or Adverbs?Are the words yesterday, today, and tomorrow adverbs or nouns? Oxford Living Dictionaries identifies all three words as an adverb first...
English AdverbsApril 14, 2019 -
Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and AdjectivesNotional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
English AdjectivesMarch 31, 2019 -
Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Indirect ObjectsI recently tweeted my post entitled Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects. To my tweet, I received a comment...
Grammatical FunctionMarch 29, 2019 -
English Adverb ClausesTraditional grammars describe adverb clauses as dependent or subordinate clauses that consist of a subordinating conjunction followed by a clause and...
English AdverbsJuly 11, 2018 -
English AdverbsNotional grammars define adverbs as “words that describe verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and clauses.” An adverb phrase consists of an adverb...
English AdverbsJune 30, 2018 -
Intensive Pronouns in English GrammarPronouns are words that take the place of nouns, noun phrases, and other grammatical forms. Intensive pronouns are pronouns that add...
English PronounsJanuary 14, 2016 -
Using Adverb Clauses as Adjunct AdverbialsNotional grammars define adverb clauses as subordinate or dependent clauses that consist of a subordinating conjunction followed by a clause and...
English AdverbsJuly 4, 2014 -
Grammatical Function of English Adverb ClausesAdverb clauses are defined as subordinate or dependent clauses that consist of a subordinating conjunction followed by a clause and that...
English AdverbsJuly 1, 2014 -
Using Postpositional Phrases as Adjunct AdverbialsNotional grammars define adpositions as words that “link to other words, phrases, and clauses” and that “express spatial or temporal relations.”...
English PrepositionsApril 15, 2014 -
Grammatical Functions of English Postpositions and Postpositional PhrasesAlthough traditional grammars speak only of prepositions in the English language, the preposition belongs to the larger category of adposition. Adpositions...
English PrepositionsJanuary 31, 2014 -
Using Adverbs and Adverb Phrases as Adjunct AdverbialsNotional grammars traditionally define adverbs as words that describe verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and clauses. An adverb phrase is a phrase...
English AdverbsJanuary 15, 2014 -
Using Prepositional Phrases as Adjunct AdverbialsTraditional grammars notionally define the preposition as a word that “links to other words, phrases, and clauses” and that “expresses spatial...
English PrepositionsDecember 9, 2013 -
Using Relative Pronouns as Adjunct AdverbialsTraditional grammars define nouns as words that name a person, place, thing, or idea. Pronouns are a subcategory of nouns that...
English AdverbsJuly 31, 2013 -
The English Relative Pronoun SystemRelative pronouns are both a type of pronoun that take the place of another word, phrase, or clause and a type...
English PronounsApril 21, 2013
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