Adverbial vs Conjunction

Adverbial [ ædˈvɜr bi əl ]

In English grammar, an adverbial (abbreviated adv) is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial clause or adverbial phrase) that modifies or more closely defines the sentence or the verb. (The word adverbial itself is also used as an adjective, meaning "having the same function as an adverb".) Look at the examples below:

• of, relating to, or used as an adverb.
• a word or phrase functioning as an adverb.
• a word or group of words playing the grammatical role of an adverb, such as in the rain in the sentence I'm singing in the rain
• of or relating to an adverb or adverbial

Conjunction [ kənˈdʒʌŋk ʃən ]

Conjunction may refer to:

• Grammar.
• any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because, but, however.
• any other word or expression of similar function, as in any case.
• the act of conjoining; combination.
• the state of being conjoined; union; association The police, in conjunction with the army, established order.
• a combination of events or circumstances.
• Logic.
• a compound proposition that is true if and only if all of its component propositions are true.
• the relation among the components of such a proposition, usually expressed by AND or & or ·.
• Astronomy.

• 1. 'Very quickly indeed' is an adverbial phrase.
• 2. In grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence.
• 3. Further, there are no adverbs or adverbial phrases except those of time and place.
• 4. The next question is - do all these adverbial expressions function in the same way?
• 5. It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position.
• 6. Verbs are often followed by adverbial particles.
• 7. An adverbial is often one an adverb.
• 8. Clauses can have an adverbial, also called an adjunct.
• 9. An adverbial is often one word, an adverb.
• 10. Participle is used mostly as adjective or adverbial.

• 1. An unfortunate conjunction of circumstances led to his downfall.
• 2. The moon is in conjunction with the sun.
• 3. It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
• 4. The conjunction of heavy rains and high winds caused flooding.
• 5. 'Because' is a causal conjunction.
• 6. We are working in conjunction with the police.
• 7. Mars and Venus will be in exact conjunction on the first of September.
• 8. The worksheets are designed to be used in conjunction with the new course books.
• 9. The system is designed to be used in conjunction with a word processing program.
• 10. The theory is that there was a rare conjunction of certain bright planets that created the image of the so-called 'Star of Bethlehem'.