adverbial
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1. adverbial - Noun
2. adverbial - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
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adverbial syntax
Fowler (1926), p. 559. In some cases, moving the adverbial creates an ungrammatical sentence or changes the meaning.
An English adverb, which is derived from an adjective, is arranged in German under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence.
Because early has both adverbial and adjectival senses, its hyphenation can attract attention; some editors, due to comparison with advanced-stage disease and adult-onset disease, like the parallelism of early-stage disease and early-onset disease.
Each root word has an inherent part of speech : nominal, adjectival, verbal, or adverbial.
For example, some adverbial expressions placed at the beginning of a sentence trigger inversion of pronominal subjects: Peut-être est-elle partie (Maybe she has left).