06.000 Chapter 6: Expressing manner and place

Chapter 6: Expressing manner and place

6.1 Introduction to adjuncts

6.7 normal position: end of clause

6.16 types of adverbs

6.17 '-ly' adverbs

6.30 Comparative and superlative adverbs

6.36 adverbs of manner

6.45 Adverbs of degree

6.53 Giving information about place: prepositions

6.58 after verbs indicating position

6.64 Indicating position

6.73 Indicating direction

6.80 Prepositional phrases as qualifiers

6.82 adverbs

6.94 adverbs indicating destinations and targets

6.102 adverbs as qualifiers

6.108 Other uses of prepositional phrases

6.117 in phrasal verbs

6.123 Prepositional phrases after nouns and adjectives

6.127 Extended meanings of prepositions

6.1 Introduction to adjuncts

When you are talking about an event or situation, you sometimes want to say something about it which has not been indicated by the subject, verb, object, or complement. You can do this by using an adjunct.

An adjunct is a word or group of words which you add to a clause when you want to say something about the circumstances of an event or situation, for example when it occurs, how it occurs, how much it occurs, or where it occurs.

• I was soon lost.
• She laughed quietly.
• She was tremendously impressed.
• He fumbled in his pocket.

In other grammars, adjuncts are sometimes called adverbials, adverb phrases, or adverbial phrases.