ABSTRACT
An adverb is typically used to indicate the manner, time or place of an action (‘badly’, ‘yesterday’, ‘here’). An adverbial phrase may consist of a single adverb, or else an adverb modified by another adverb (‘very badly’, ‘right here’). An adverbial is any adverb or any phrase or clause that functions as an adverb. Prepositional phrases (e.g. ‘to London’) function adverbially, but we will deal with them separately in Chapter 8. A variety of subordinate clauses function adverbially; these are dealt with in sections 10.13-10.19. For the sake of simplicity we will normally use the term ‘adverb’ to refer to any adverb, adverbial phrase or adverbial. A table showing some of the most basic adverbs is given in Appendix 1.
