The important thing to know is that different parts of speech, including nouns and prepositional phrases, can function adverbially, even if they’re not official members of the adverb club.

An adverbial can be any word, phrase or clause that modifies either a verb, an adjective or a complete sentence to convey this information. In other words, adverbials aren’t necessarily adverbs.

A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a predicate, with ‘predicate’ referring to the part of a sentence that contains the verb and gives information about the subject.

When The Associated Press said it would no longer condemn the use of the adverb "hopefully" in its style guide, most people shrugged. But the announcement was a red flag to people who have made ...

How many vowels are in today's Wordle? There is one vowel out of the five letters in the word today. What kind of letter does today's Wordle start with? Today's Wordle begins with ...

The phrase as fast as a lightning does the function of an adverb, describing how the dog ran and it is an adverbial phrase. So, add the phrase and make your sentences go ZING!

What are fronted adverbials? A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.

If you've followed the 2016 presidential election, you've probably heard Donald Trump say it: "bigly." Or is that "big-league"? We asked linguists to settle the score — and offer a little context.

Just what is a “fronted adverbial” anyway? Quite simply, it’s a word or self-contained phrase at the start of the sentence, that describes how the action in the rest of the sentence happens.

An adverb tells you how something happens, like quickly and slowly. Find out more including adverbs examples in this Bitesize Primary KS2 English guide.