Grammar: Groups & phrases: Adverb group

Expressing how / when / where

Providing more detail about an activity

One of the major functions of language is to enable us to talk about what goes on in our world: what is happening? who is taking part?

When we want to add more information about the circumstances surrounding this activity (ie 'Sally was eating her dinner'), we can use adverb groups to tell us about such details as time, manner and place:

Late yesterday Sally was eating her dinner.
Sally was eating much too loudly.
Sally was eating her dinner over there.

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For more information on using adverb groups to describe actions, see:

	Communicative functions: Talking about experience: How? When? Where? Why?
	Grammar: Clause: Using the clause to represent experience: The circumstances: 'How?', 'When?', 'Where?''

For more information, see:

	Text types: Explanations: Sequencing events in time
	Text types: Explanations: Saying how things happen