Talk:Adverbial phrase

Why does "intensifier" redirect here?

This article is about adverbial phrases, but I believe an intensifier can refer to an adjective, or a verb, not just an adverb.

The most common intensifier is very, as in very nice. This has little to do with this article, so I would suggest that intensifier was given its own page with its own description.

Here are a couple of links which back up what I say: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm http://www.icalweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Intensifiers Grand Dizzy (talk) 21:02, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Intensifier should not redirect here. Intensifiers are a kind of adverb (not adverbial...), but are not discussed in this article.Comhreir (talk) 08:05, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

why doesnt anyone give some adverbial phrases???? (more than 3) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.106.206.103 (talk) 19:51, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Main word

Isn't an adverb(ial) phrase a phrase that has an adverb as its main word? Phrasal analysis is different from syntactic analysis, and an adverb phrase needs not necessarily form a stand-alone adverbial in the syntactic analysis. --109.58.205.56 (talk) 13:16, 23 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Adverbial Phrase Distribution

I would like to congratulate the editors on producing a paragraph which is 100% learned jargon. No part of it can be understood by someone who is not a trained linguist.

(Please rewrite.) 71.178.95.236 (talk) 23:22, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm tempted to delete the final eight words of that post. --Kent Dominic·(talk) 12:43, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relation to Prepositional phrases

Not sure, but I think it may be true that all adverbial phrases are prepositional phrases. if so, we should say so. Maybe that only applies to English. In any case, the set of English adverbial phrases that are also prepositional phrases is large, and ought to be indicated here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.250.184.214 (talk) 22:42, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In the sentence "We arrived three hours late", the part "three hours late" is an adverbial phrase that is not prepositional. --Lambiam 05:52, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Head

What is the head of the adverbial phrase "very quickly"? According to the text in the section Degree adverbial phrases, it is "very", but using the definition presented in Head (linguistics) it should be "quickly". --Lambiam 05:49, 12 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]