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The adverbial of place
§ 100. This adverbial expresses:
a) Place proper.
John was born in Australia, but lives in England.
b) Direction or destination.
He moved to Australia in 1975.
c) Distance.
He lives far from his parents.
The identifying questions are where? for place proper, where to? where from? - for direction, where? how
far? - for distance.
The adverbial of time
§ 101. The adverbial of time has four variations:
a) The adverbial of time proper denotes the time of some event. It may be expressed in
almost all the ways enumerated in § 97.
We shall meet tomorrow.
Ten days later she returned.
When angry count a hundred.
b) The adverbial of frequency indicates how often the event denoted by the predicate takes
place. It is mostly placed before the notional part of the predicate (if it is expressed by an adverb).
I am always careful.
We often see each other.
Does he ever visit museums? - Once in a blue moon.
He calls me from time to time.
We have a get-together every year.
Adverbials of frequency are expressed by adverbs and adverbial phrases.
c) The adverbial of duration indicates the period of time during which some event takes
place. They are often expressed by prepositional phrases with prepositions for, during, since, till, until. The
preposition since denotes the starting point and the preposition till/until - the final point of some period.
Have you been there long? - A couple of hours.
They want to rest (for) a day or two.
The sun gives us light during the day.
We are to wait till the end of the exam.
This has been going on since our arrival.
He lived to be ninety.
Note:
The preposition for is optional after the verbs of duration.