English EDUCATION

• Adverbial phrases are so-called because they can occur in the same range of positions as single adverbs; but many such adverbial phrases, paradoxically, do not contain an adverb. Such adverb-less adverbial phrases are typically prepositional phrases, as [italicized] in the examples below:

- On Friday night, I'm playing squash.
- Their marriage broke up in the most painful way.
- May I, on behalf of the shareholders, congratulate you?

(Jame R. Hurford, Grammar: A Student's Guide. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994)

• "Like adverbs, adverb phrases can cause confusion because there is some flexibility in where they occur within sentences, and even in modifying the sentence structure. As well, adverb phrases are sometimes embedded into other phrases.
  
  "Examples are:

a. 'Laura, a better, gentler, more beautiful Laura, whom everybody, everybody loved dearly and tenderly.' [Norris]
[ADVERB PHRASE]

b. 'He had taken her hand sympathizingly, forgivingly, but his silence made me curious.' [Michelson]
[ADVERB PHRASE]

c. 'David, on the lowest step, was very evidently not hearing a word of what was being said.' [Porter]
[ADVERB PHRASE EMBEDDED INTO VERB PHRASE]

Our first example identifies an adverb phrase following the verb loved; the next example shows an adverb phrase following the noun hand and removed from the verb it modifies; the third example has an adverb phrase embedded into a verb phrase was . . . hearing. Such flexibility makes it more difficult to identify these phrases; therefore, noting the head adverb can be of help."
(Bernard O'Dwyer, Modern English Structures: Form, Function, and Position. Broadview, 2006)

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