Adverbials
What is an adverbial?
In grammar an adverbial is a word or a group of words that changes or tells us something about the sentence or the verb. An adverbial is a structure that modifies, or describes, verbs. There can be more than one adverbial in a sentence. Also, there is not a sure slot fixed for adverbials. They are movable. Adverbs and adverbials are similar but not the same. Another functional constituent that suggests a copular relationship with some other clause constituent is the adverbial complement.
For example, the function of a phrase in a sentence may be adverbial; that is, it alters a verb. Here is a map, taken from Martha Kolln’s Agreement English Grammar, that will help you better understand form and function. You can see that the most common perspective for adverbials is at the end of the sentence Place adverbials come before time adverbials.
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