ABSTRACT
Adverbial modiYers are words or expressions, usually placed immediately before the verb or sometimes at the beginning of a sentence, which give additional information concerning the action or state expressed in the verb. They fall into three main categories: background, manner and attitude indicators. We have already discussed background indicators such as time and location expressions (see Chapters 10 and 11); here the focus is on adverbial modiyers of manner and attitude.
