adverbial phrase

English

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Noun

Examples
  • We ran as quickly as we could up the stairs.
  • We ran to the top of the stairs.

adverbial phrase (plural adverbial phrases)

  1. (grammar) A phrase that collectively modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a prepositional phrase.

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