Sentence Adverbs
Larry Swain
swainl at calcite.rocky.edu
Thu Aug 13 16:55:01 EDT 1998
Maybe this will help: if you actually are diagramming the sentence, the
sentence adverbial would go in front of the subject.
Like this: (which is an off the cuff example so probably not the best,
but perhaps you'll get the idea)
Practically, to use a lexicon is best.
Practically/to use/is/best
\
lexicon
\
a
Not the best example, but I hope it helps. Further, it has been argued
that a sentence adverbial could be read as modifying the verb since that
carries the main idea of the sentence, but I like the other way better.
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