Adverbials, like attributes, are preceded by additional elements; The difference is that it is an additional component in the predicate, while the attribute is an additional component in the subject or object. From the sentence level, adverbials are the second and third level components, and sometimes even the lower level components.
2 the composition of adverbial
Adverbials are usually composed of adjectives, adverbs, nouns of time and place, modal verbs, demonstrative pronouns, locative phrases, prepositional phrases, verb-object phrases, predicate joint phrases, predicate-subject-predicate phrases and so on.
Quantitative phrases containing momentum words and overlapping quantitative phrases (regardless of momentum and quantity) can also be used as adverbials.
In addition, a few nouns with adverbials can also be used as adverbials.
3 adverbial writing symbol-"ground"
The written language of adverbial is the structural auxiliary word "de" Whether the adverbial has "de" or not is very complicated. Generally speaking, adverbials such as quantitative phrases, subject-predicate phrases and verb-object phrases are often used with "de". Preposition phrases, locative phrases, willing verbs and nouns in time and place cannot be adverbials with "de", and adverbs and monosyllabic adjectives generally do not have "de".
4 multi-layer adverbial
If there are several adverbials (multi-layer adverbials) in front of a head word, pay attention to their word order. Generally, the number of adverbials of multilayer adverbials is less than that of multilayer attributives, and the word order is more flexible than that of multilayer attributives.
General word order of multilayer adverbials:
A. nouns or positional phrases indicating time, prepositional phrases;
B. adverbs
C. Preposition phrases or nouns and locative phrases;
D. adjectives or predicate phrases with expressions;
E. prepositional phrases indicating objects.
Adverbs are more flexible and can be placed after the third item.
5 General adverbials and adverbials at the beginning of sentences
Adverbial has two positions in a sentence: one is after the subject and before the center of the predicate, which is the general position of the adverbial mentioned above; The other is placed in front of the subject, which is a special position of adverbial, and can be called "adverbial at the beginning of a sentence".
The Classification of Six Adverbials
Adverbials can be divided into eight categories according to their modifying functions:
Adverbials of time, condition, reason, purpose, result, concession and comparison.