Verb

1. He moves.
2. She dances.
3. They swim.
Verb + Object
1. He moves the fan.
2. She sings Tagore.
3. They play cricket.
Verb + Complement
1. They are writers.
2. She is upstairs.
3. She looks disappointed.
 Verb + Adverbial/ verb (+object)+ adverbial
Adverbial: a word or a phrase that functions like an
adverb in a sentence. Adverbials include single
word adverbs, adverbial phrases, prepositional
phrases, participles, and infininitives.
Single word adverbs:
1. She sings well.
2. She dances badly.
3. He can walk fast.
4. They live downstairs.
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Adverbial Phrases:
1. He sang very badly.
2. He left the hostel bag and baggage.
3. It has been raining cats and dogs.
4. They informed the police black and white
5. They were running helter-skelter.
6. She responded then and there.
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Prepositional Phrases as adverbials:
1. He stood on the table.
2. She sat under the tree.
3. They were working on the street .
4. They hid the bag in a corner of their living room.
5. They met her in her office.
6. She spoke before a large audience.
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Participles as adverbials:
Present Participle: an ing form of verb used to represent an
ongoing action.
1. He sat watching TV.
2. She lay talking to her grandchildren.
3. They stood there taking tea and gossiping among
themselves.
4. He sat there in that corner reading a newspaper.
5. I saw the man being beaten by a mugger.
6. She found me reading a novel.
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Participles as adverbials:
More Uses of Present Participle:
1. He woke up hearing the sound of the door being opened by the
thief.
2. He looked up hearing the sound of the pages being turned over.
3. She could not help being insulted there.
4. She got up noticing a stranger before him, wearing a shabby
dress, looking at her strangely and speaking about strange
matters.
5. She felt happy hearing the news of her father going abroad on a
business trip.
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Participles as adverbials:
Past Participle is used to represent a completed action or in
passivization.
1. We visited the houses burnt and destroyed by the Rakhine
army.
2. We saw may architectures there made around 500 years
ago.
3. She talked to people harassed and robbed on the way.
4. We helped those injured in the accident.
5. The police recovered the baby stolen last week from a local
hospital.
 Verb + Adverbial/ verb (+object)+ adverbial
Participles as adverbials:
Past Participle is used to represent a completed action or in
passivization.
1. We visited the houses burnt and destroyed by the Rakhine
army.
2. We saw may architectures there made around 500 years
ago.
3. She talked to people harassed and robbed on the way.
4. We helped those injured in the accident.
5. The police recovered the baby stolen last week from a local
hospital.
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Infinitives as adverbials:
An infinitive is a base form of verb that can function in a sentence as a noun,
an adjective, verb and adverb.
Infinitives as Adverbials:
1. He swims to build his body,
2. We eat to live.
3. He came to meet me.
4. He ran to reach office in time.
5. He wrote to earn money.
6. He has been waiting to see her off.
7. This is not a room to live in.
8. I need a man to live for.