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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 Source: Internet

Fowler (1926), p. 559. In some cases, moving the adverbial creates an ungrammatical sentence or changes the meaning. Source: Internet

An English adverb, which is derived from an adjective, is arranged in German under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Each root word has an inherent part of speech : nominal, adjectival, verbal, or adverbial. Source: Internet

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). Source: Internet

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