Adverb Phrase and Adverbial Phrase.

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Adverb Phrase and Adverbial Phrase.

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Greetings,

Are "adverb phrase" and "adverbial phrase" the same or not?
If you give me a few examples about them, I will be very happy.

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Re: Adverb Phrase and Adverbial Phrase.

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Not necessarily!

An adverb phrase is a phrase headed by a word that is normally classified as an adverb, e.g. 'very happily' (headed by adverb 'happily').

An adverbial phrase, or more commonly simply 'adverbial', is any word or group of words - including, but not limited to adverb phrases - that serves some kind of adverbial function, e.g. the entire subordinate clause of

When I was young, I could run fast.

which specifies when I could run fast.
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