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Adverbial

An adverbial is a grammatical term used to label any part of a clause that functions to give, typically, more information about time, place or manner. A sentence or clause can contain several adverbials (which, unusually for an English syntax, can be located in various places). Adverbials are usually ‘optional’ elements in a clause in the sense that the central meaning of the clause will remain clear without them.