Adverbials

Adverbials are elements in a clause, and they do three main jobs:

• Many of them provide additional information, answering questions such as:
  Where?
  When?
  How?
  Why?
  These adverbials are referred to as adjuncts.
• Some adverbials help to link sentences together in a text.
  These are referred to as conjuncts.
• Other adverbials enable the writers and speakers to make little comments about what they are communicating.
  These are known as disjuncts.

Adverbials can be:

• a single word, normally an adverb
• a phrase, normally a prepositional phrase

©John Seely 2008