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How to use adverbial in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, noun

Adverbial means of or relating to an adverb. Example: “"Twice" is an adverbial number, while "two" is a cardinal number.”

More sentences with adverbial

  • "Twice" is an adverbial number, while "two" is a cardinal number.From the entry adverbial number
  • In English, most phrasal prepositions consist of an adverbial followed by a one-word preposition.From the entry phrasal preposition
  • In the phrasal verbs 'set up', 'throw away', 'shut down', 'carry out' and 'take over', the words 'up', 'away', 'down', 'out' and 'over' are the adverbial particles.From the entry adverbial particle
  • How are you getting on with fronted adverbials?2021 January 23, Michael Rosen, “Dear Gavin Williamson, could you tell parents what a fronted adverbial is?”, in The Guardian. From the entry in the same shoes
  • Grammatically, three ways of using adjectives can be distinguished: the attributive use, the predicative use and the adverbial use.2013, Sebastian Loebner, Understanding Semantics. From the entry attributive
  • “That shade of green makes you look like a zucchini,” Alana said rudely (“said rudely” is the adverbial tag line).2010, Ellen Potter with Anne Mazer, Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook. From the entry tag line
  • Herodotus uses more ascriptives than Homer, but the adverbial participle is well illustrated in Herodotus and the complementary is fairly common.2008, Charles Bray Williams, The Participle in the Book of Acts, page 11. From the entry ascriptive
  • In these examples, it is a special Aktionsart reading — inchoactive or terminative — which allows the container adverbial.1991, Robert I. Binnick, Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect, →ISBN, page 310. From the entry inchoactive
  • The abstract relationship between locative-temporal and causal-final adverbials is well reflected in their realization in the case system.1982, László Dezső, Typological Studies in Old Serbo-Croatian Syntax, page 210. From the entry causal-final
  • Through this rescriptive grammar, 'no moer' is now revalenced from an adverbial to a pronominal phrase, announcing immovability in the face of the first poem's pleas.2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting, page 190. From the entry rescriptive
  • I have also catalogued nearly two dozen devices of description, from anemographia to triplets adjectival and adverbial, and conclude that Poe is a highly descriptive writer.1999 Winter, Brett Zimmerman, “A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, in Style, volume 33…. From the entry anemographia
  • As the use of tense morphology increases, the functional load of the adverbials decreases and the actual ratio of time adverbials to finite verbs may also decrease.1999, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, “FROM MORPHEME STUDIES TO TEMPORAL SEMANTICS: Tense-Aspect Research in SLA”, in Studies in Second Language…. From the entry functional load

Meaning of adverbial

  1. adjective Of or relating to an adverb.
  2. noun An adverbial word or phrase.

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Questions about adverbial in a sentence

How do you use adverbial in a sentence?
Adverbial is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “"Twice" is an adverbial number, while "two" is a cardinal number.”
What is a short sentence with adverbial?
“How are you getting on with fronted adverbials?”
What does adverbial mean?
Adverbial means of or relating to an adverb.

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