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Adverbial usage is daring and postmodern but frowned upon.
Hands On: Getting a Handle On Your Brakes BikeSnobNYC 2008
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(Though we will eventually see that the result of balking at this point may have less epistemological significance than it has usually been accorded.) 1.3 The Adverbial Theory
Epistemological Problems of Perception BonJour, Laurence 2007
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“The Adverbial Theory of the Objects of Perception,” Metaphilosophy 6, 144-60.
The Contents of Perception Siegel, Susanna 2005
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Adverbial mistakes often occur in the best writers.
How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin
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Adverbial or adjective forms have been omitted whenever it has been considered safe, and so have terms prefixed by sub -, supra - and the like, indicating degree or position.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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This is very common when the Adverbial Adjunct is placed in an emphatic position at the beginning of the sentence: "_On this very spot_ our guide declared that Claverhouse had fallen."
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition Edwin A. Abbott
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Adverbs and Adverbial phrases regularly precede the word they modify; as, -- valdē dīligēns, _extremely diligent_; saepe dīxī, _I have often said_; tē jam diū hortāmur, _we have long been urging you_; paulō post, _a little after_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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+Adverbial Modifiers+ analysis of nouns as parsing of
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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Adverbial Clause: He came _when he had finished with the work_.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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Adverbial phrase, not yet fully accepted as good English, though the analogy of close by and hard by seems to justify it.
Misused Expressions 1918
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