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adverbial
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Word definitions for adverbial in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adverbial \Ad*ver"bi*al\, a. [L. adverbialis: cf. F. adverbial.] Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a word or group of words function as an adverb
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "pertaining to adverbs;" earlier it meant "fond of using adverbs" (1590s), from Late Latin adverbialis , from adverbium (see adverb ). Related: Adverbially (mid-15c.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In grammar an adverbial ( abbreviated ) is a word (an adverb ) or a group of words (an adverbial phrase or an adverbial clause ) that modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb . (The word adverbial itself is also used as an adjective, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context grammar English) of or relating to an adverb n. (context grammar English) an adverbial word or phrase
Usage examples of adverbial.
You start with that adverb, and then you follow it with an adverbial clause, and then you follow all that with an adjective.
There are certain times when an adverb or an adverbial phrase can be used to establish the motivation.
We must caution the would-be novelist to use adverbs and adverbial clauses sparingly.
The reason for this is that a repetition of the adverbial form down a page or two quickly attracts attention to itself, and the reader will have lost the sense of imagined experience through a mannerism of style.
Count the adverbs or adverbial clauses in your first chapter and decide if you have used them sparingly.
Or are we to understand that Tolkien, by the LotR period, had dropped -o as an adverbial ending?
We cannot know whether -o is still a valid adverbial ending in LotR-style Quenya.
McMurtry has allowed few adverbial dandelions to grow on his lawn.
Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandescent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude.