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Adverbial adjunct - Bijwoordelijke bepaling

For a text to make sense it is important to know the context in which the events and situations it describes occur or occurred. It is especially important ot know the when, how, where and why of these events and situations. This is established by using expressions that signal, amongst other things, the time, manner, place, and reason or purpose of events or situations.

In this example, words that give information about time are vannacht and vanmorgen; verder and met vier centimeter per uur give information about how things happened (manner); in Dresden and daar convey information about place; and purpose or reason is explained with the words voor overleg over de aanpak van de wateroverlast.

The grammatical term for these functional indications of time, manner, place and reason is adverbial adjunct. Adverbial adjuncts give additional information about when, how, where, and why things take place. They can consist of:

- single >>adverbs (vanmorgen, daar);
- larger word groups such as prepositional phrases (met vier centimeter per uur);
- subordinate clauses (om te overleggen over de aanpak van de wateroverlast).

Click >here for information about the positions in which adverbial adjuncts can occur in a sentence.
Click >here for the most common categories of adverbial adjuncts.

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