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adverbial_phrase

adverbial phrase

English

Noun

Examples

We ran as quickly as we could up the stairs.
We ran to the top of the stairs.

adverbial phrase (plural adverbial phrases)

  1. (grammar) A phrase that collectively modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or a prepositional phrase.

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