(prep.) In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person).
(prep.) Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
(prep.) Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity.
(prep.) In concern with; engaged in; intent on.
(prep.) On the point or verge of; going; in act of.
(prep.) Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching.
(adv.) On all sides; around.
(adv.) In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
(adv.) Here and there; around; in one place and another.
(adv.) Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time.
(adv.) To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
Example Sentences:
Adverbial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Errors of the auxiliary and suffix were easier for children to identify than an adverbial error which required a sentence analysis to determine the incompatibility.
(2) This is why your department provided a ludicrous list of “expected” levels for year 2 and year 6 children, full of terminology such as “subordinating conjunctions” and “fronted adverbials”.
(3) The oldest children (like the adults) were more likely to prepose when clauses than were younger children, a finding which suggests that with increasing awareness of the information needs of the listener, children begin to use preposed adverbial clauses as information 'guideposts'.
(4) In particular, we argue that an event structure can provide a distinct and useful level of representation for linguistic analysis involving the aspectual properties of verbs, adverbial scope, the role of argument structure, and the mapping from the lexicon to syntax.
(5) An interesting discrepancy emerged between the use and the understanding of adverbial conjuncts, a finding that resembled the well-documented discrepancy between the use and the understanding of spoken words in young children.
(6) In a longitudinal study concerned to assess Verb Phrase (VP) development in three Trinidadian children, adverbials were found to be crucial in delineating specific areas of semantic intent, and to develop early (between ages 2; 3 and 3; 0).
(7) In Experiment 1, these two principles were studied in complex sentences with a main clause and a subordinate adverbial clause-e.g., "When she heard the thunder, she stopped playing Frisbee."
(8) Factors that may contribute to the development of adverbial conjuncts are discussed.
(9) Again, teachers have been sweating over “fronted adverbials” for the past few years.
(10) The use and understanding of two types of adverbial conjuncts, concordant (e.g., similarly, moreover, consequently) and discordant (e.g., contrastively, rather, nevertheless), was examined developmentally in 120 adolescents and young adults.
(11) Two of the children were exposed to, and acquired, both TC and SE verb categories and the third, TC, but the existence of TC past-completive zero phi as a prominent verbal marker in all their systems made for reliance on adverbial and extralinguistic context in delineating meaning intentions at an early stage; the use which they made of adverbial specification, in particular for marking perfect aspect, indicates how useful these elements may be for precise specification of the development of tense-aspect categories.