All posts tagged "adjunct adverbial"
Is “Some Years Back” Grammatically Correct?Earlier today I came across a tweet that argued against the use of the word back in the phrase some years...
English PrepositionsFebruary 4, 2020- Using Verbs and Verb Phrases as Adjunct Adverbials
Notional grammars traditionally verbs as “words that denote actions and states of being.” A verb phrase consists of a verb plus...
English VerbsJune 15, 2019 - Not All Forms That Function as Adverbials Are Adverbs
The 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 Adjectives
Notional 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 Objects
I 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 Clauses
Traditional 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 Adverbs
Notional 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 Grammar
Pronouns 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 Adverbials
Notional 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 Clauses
Adverb 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 Adverbials
Notional 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 Phrases
Although 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 Adverbials
Notional 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 Adverbials
Traditional grammars notionally define the preposition as a word that “links to other words, phrases, and clauses” and that “expresses spatial...
English PrepositionsDecember 9, 2013
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