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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