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  2. Time–manner–place - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese , Afrikaans , [ 1 ] Dutch , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Mandarin , and German [ 4 ] use this structure.

  3. Adverb - Wikipedia

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    An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a determiner, a clause, a preposition, or a sentence.Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or level of certainty by answering questions such as how, in what way, when, where, to what extent.

  4. Adjunct (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The object argument each time is identified insofar as it is a sister of V that appears to the right of V, and the adjunct status of the adverb early and the PP before class is seen in the higher position to the right of and above the object argument. Other adjuncts, in contrast, are assumed to adjoin to a position that is between the subject ...

  5. Adverbial phrase - Wikipedia

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    Modifying adverbial phrases combine with a sentence, and the removal of the adverbial phrase yields a well-formed sentence. For example, in (5) the modifying adverbial phrase in an hour can be removed, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., I'll go to bed); in (6) the modifying AdvP three hours later can be omitted, and the sentence remains well-formed (e.g., We arrived); and in (7), the ...

  6. Temporal clause (Latin) - Wikipedia

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    Another possibility commonly used in Latin for expressing time is a participial phrase. For example, the temporal clauses id postquam audīvit (Nepos) [2] "after he heard this" and quod cum audīvisset (Cicero) [3] "when he heard this" both mean much the same thing as the participial phrase quō audītō (Pliny) [4] (literally, "with which heard").

  7. Fourth grade - Wikipedia

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    Fourth grade (also 4th Grade or Grade 4) is the fourth year of formal or compulsory education. It is the fourth year of primary school . Children in fourth grade are usually 9–10 years old.

  8. Is it sexist to call a female employee a b****? That ... - AOL

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    “The argument there was, they weren’t using it as an expletive, but more as an adverbial intensifier, so the use was ‘acceptable’,” Professor Syrett said. ... earning $300,000-a-year by ...

  9. Adverbial - Wikipedia

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    (adverbial clause) An adverbial is a construction which modifies or describes verbs. When an adverbial modifies a verb, it changes the meaning of that verb. This may be performed by an adverb or a word group, either considered an adverbial: for example, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, a finite clause or a non-finite clause. [2]