Conjunct adverbials are words and phrases that express textual relationships and serve to link clauses. Only one grammatical form can perform the grammatical function of conjunct adverbial in the English language. Only one grammatical form can function as the adverb phrase modifier in English grammar: adverb phrases.
Adverb Phrases as Conjunct Adverbials
The first grammatical form that performs the grammatical function of conjunct adverbial is the adverb phrase. Adverb phrases are phrases in which an adverb functions as the head of the phrase plus any modifiers. For example, the following italicized adverb phrases function as conjunct adverbials:
- First wash and peel the carrots.
- Then dice the carrots into small pieces.
- Cut the parsnips into small chunks too.
- The verb, nevertheless, is a favorite research topic of mine.
- My favorite grammatical forms, however, are the preposition and the p-word.
- Additionally, I enjoy learning more about modal verbs.
A conjunct adverbial is a word or phrase that expresses a textual relationship. The only grammatical form that can function as the conjunct adverbial in the English language is the adverb phrase.
Summary
Conjunct adverbials are words and phrases that express textual relationships. Conjunct adverbials serve to link clauses.
Conjunct adverbial is a grammatical function.
The grammatical forms that can function as the conjunct adverbial in English grammar are the adverb phrase and prepositional phrase.
Conjunct adverbials are not constituents of either the subject or the predicate.
References
Brinton, Laurel J. & Donna M. Brinton. 2010. The linguistic structure of Modern English, 2nd edn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
