Examples
Take the sentence John killed Bill in Central Park on Sunday as an example:
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- John is the subject argument.
- killed is the predicate.
- Bill is the object argument.
- in Central Park is the first adjunct.
- on Sunday is the second adjunct.
An adverbial adjunct is a sentence element that often establishes the circumstances in which the action or state expressed by the verb takes place. The following sentence uses adjuncts of time and place:
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- Yesterday, Lorna saw the dog in the garden.
Notice that this example is ambiguous between whether the adjunct in the garden modifies the verb saw (in which case it is Lorna who saw the dog while she was in the garden) or the noun phrase the dog (in which case it is the dog who is in the garden). The definition can be extended to include adjuncts that modify nouns or other parts of speech (see noun adjunct).
Read more about this topic: Adjunct (grammar)
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