Types of adverbial phrases
When two words are joined in a sentence and both can be considered as the adverb of the same is when we speak of verbal phrases, a linguistic element that is analyzed as if it were a single entity despite being made up of two words. There are many types of verbal phrases that we use every day in our everyday speech, such as affirmative phrase "of course", the negative "no way", the one in a "good way", of doubt "maybe", etc. These elements must be analyzed as if it were a single one since their meaning is understood in a unified way. In this lesson from a teacher we will review what are the types of adverbial phrases that exist in Spanish.
An adverbial phrase is the combination of two or more words (generally, the prototype of adverbial locution always includes a preposition and a noun) that plays a adverbial function within the sentence.
A characteristic of adverbial phrases is that the sum of the meaning of each of the elements that compose it does not always give meaning to the complete phrase as occurs with "of course", adverbial statement of affirmation that indicates that the person who uses it agrees with what enunciated by another speaker and does not mean "after this moment passes", which would be the meaning of the sum of the constituent parts of the locution.
Despite being composed of several sentence elements, adverbial phrases are analyzed as a single entity and, due to the fact that it functions as an adverb, some grammarians consider that the types of adverbial phrases can be classified within the group of adverbs; that is, phrases of mode, of time, of place, of quantity, of affirmation, of negation and, finally, of doubt.
In this video of a teacher we will discover the differences between a verbal locution and a verbal periphrasis.
The adverbial phrases of place point to the space or the site where the action takes place described by the main verb of the sentence. Here are several examples of adverbial phrases of place:
- To the head
- On the right
- On the left
- In the distance
- In the end
- To the other side
- Close up
- From far
- In the middle
- Aloft
- Behind
- In front
Surely you know many of the adverbial expressions of affirmation and negation as they are expressions widely used in everyday oral language. Some of the most common adverbial affirmation and negation phrases are the following:
1. Adverbial statements of affirmation
- Of course
- Indeed
- Actually
- Truly
- Would be missing more
- Of course
- Without a doubt (some) / Without a doubt
2. Adverbial phrases of negation
- In my life
- No way
- No way
- Not much less
- Not even remotely
- Not for those
- Never again
We find the adverbial phrases of doubt, which indicate a indecisive or unsafe position with respect to what is exposed by the verb. Here are some examples of this type of voice-over:
- Maybe
- To the worst
- The same
- If anything
- Perhaps
Like adverbs of manner, adverbial phrases of manner they point out, as their name suggests, the mode or manner in which the action is carried out described by the verb. Some examples of adverbial phrases of manner are the following:
- In bulk
- Squirting
- Blindly
- Left and right
- By dint of
- Haphazard
- To the good
- To the bad
- Knowingly
- Foolishly and madly
- In the dark
- In that way
- In this way
- For the good
- The bad
- No more no more
