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[sailortelevator]

Identify all the adverbials in the following sentences and classify them according to their form (phrase or clause type, e.g. noun phrase, finite clause, etc.), meaning (time, place etc.) and position (initial position, mid-position, end position).

1. For nine years Gillian Anderson played special agent Dana Scully in the X-Files.

2. Consequently

Comments

[ainobethie]

This is like knowing something but not knowing WHY or HOW you know it. O_o

Um...I'll call my mom. LOL!

[sailortelevator]

Pretty much the reason this question is giving me so much trouble! Correcting incorrect sentences and translating sentences? I'm fine with! Explaining stuff? Shiiiiit. :P

Yaay :D

[just_keep_on]

I feel really embarrassed to ask this but what is an adverbial o_o?

[poggie92]

So, in the first one it's the "For nine years" part that modifies the "Gillian Anderson played" part. And as for classifying it, I suppose 'meaning' = time, 'position' = initial...and for 'form'...it's an adverbial phrase? Because I don't think it counts as a clause?

And for the second one, the adverb is "curiously" and it's an adverb of manner and it's in a mid-position because it's in between the subject and the verb?

Or something like that? I should really be able to do this oh my goodness >.

[maruizhen]

Hi! We don't know each other, but I just can't resist the chance of getting a cookie. XD

Anyway, maybe this here helps:

http://www.myenglishgrammar.com/lesson-4-adverbs/1-types-of-adverbs.html