An Adverbial Adjunct is a word or group of words that is added to some part of a sentence that is not a noun or pronoun.

Adverbial adjuncts are often added to verbs, and this fact gives them their name. But they are also often added to verbals and verb phrases, as well as to other elements not yet studied.

Exercise 85

Analyze the following sentences, classifying the adjuncts as adjective or adverbial.

Model fob Describing Adjuncts She walked rapidly.

The word rapidly shows the manner of the walking. It is therefore added to the word walked. The word walked is a verb. The word rapidly is therefore an adverb. (Notice that the reason comes before the conclusion).

1. The word of the Lord by night To the watching pilgrims came.

2. Long under Basil's roof had he lived.

3. Gardens with heavy soil are benefited by fall plowing.

4. This warm weather will make the ice very thin.

5. The long-wanted Six has come.

6. The Six of the past has been high-priced, heavy, wasteful.

7. The man who wanted modest price and weight, and modest operative cost, has been confined to Fours.

8. Now comes a high-grade Six which underbids Fours in all these particulars.

9. A lion that had grown old saw that he must get his food by cunning.

10. He who did this should confess at once.

11. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale with a body of trained nurses went from England to care for the wounded soldiers.

12. Marion's men were famous for their bold adventures.

13. Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads.

14. Bad politicians have many ways of deceiving the people.

15. The Indians made Mr. Henry Alexander prisoner when they took Fort Mackinaw.

16. Last year, I learned for the first time that dahlias can be raised from seed.

17. Cornwallis then chased them for two hundred miles northward across the Carolinas.

18. Have you read Longfellow's poem, Santa Filomena, in honor of Florence Nightingale?

19. After Lincoln's surrender at Charleston, Congress sent General Gates down to take command of the American troops.

Exercise 86. Development

1. She is sitting there.

2. She is sitting in the sunlight.

3. She is sitting where the sunlight falls.

Select the adjuncts in the preceding sentences, and classify them according to use. How do the second and third differ in form from the first? How do they differ from each other?

1. Honorable men are respected.

2. Men of honor are respected.

3. Men who are honorable are respected.

Study the adjuncts in this group of sentences as you did those in the preceding group.