adverbial | adverbially

An adverbial is one of the five possible elements of a sentence or clause , the others being topic, verb, object, and fit. An adverbial frequently takes the form of an adverb (e.g. happily, often, there), adverb phrase (e.g. quite happily, very often, over there), or prepositional terminology (e.g. with happiness, on sunday, on a bench). Like adverbs, adverbials typically express manner, time, or place. Adverbials are often optional, and their position in a sentence is usually flexible, as in ‘I visited my parents at the weekend‘/‘Within weekend I visited my parents.’

• One of the senses of the phrase types ofis ‘Used adverbially: in a way, in a manner of speaking; to some extent or degree, somewhat; in some way, somehow.’ In this use, kind of functions like an adverb in that it modifies adjectives and verbs, for example in ‘It’s kind of terrible’ and ‘You kind of feel sorry for him.’
• Adverbial is used in the OED to describe ingredients in which the first element is a noun or adjective functioning like an adverb. For example, Evening n. contains a compounds section with the heading ‘Adverbial, in the sense “by night”, “during the night”.’ The compounds include night-haunted (‘some night-haunted ruin’) and night-warbling adj. (‘the night-warbling frogs’), in which night behaves like an adverb in that it modifies the adjectives haunted and warbling.
• Teach v. 1 experience 14‘To go by train, travel by railway’ is described as ‘Usually with adverbial’, because in this sense train is usually used with adverbials expressing direction or destination, as in ‘The men..all trained from Winchesterto Farnham.‘

broker noun

An agent noun is a noun that is derived from a verb and denotes the individual or thing that carries out the action expressed by that hiki verb. In English, agent nouns are formed by adding the suffix –er or -or to a verb, for example teacher, fastener, editor, accelerator.

• Vintage letter. 5b is defined as ‘Modifying an agent noun: that habitually does the action specified.’ Examples include customary offender (a person who habitually offends) and customary smoker (a person who habitually smokes).
• At Delicious chocolate letter. C2, compounds such as chocolate lover (a person who loves chocolate) and chocolate maker (a person who makes chocolate) are described as ‘with agent nouns’.

consent | agreement

Grammatical agreement refers to the fact of two (or more) elements in a clause or sentence having the same grammatical person, amount, sex, or situation. In modern English, the main type of agreement takes place between the subject and the verb of a clause. For example, in ‘This apple tastes delicious’, both the subject (This apple) and the verb (tastes) are in the singular form: they have singular agreement. In ‘These apples taste delicious’, both the subject (These apples) and the verb (taste) are in the plural form: they have plural agreement.

Sometimes an excellent noun (or sense of a good noun) features a good plural means, however, will follow one verb. Such, in ‘Politics is actually interesting’, the fresh new plural noun politics ‘s the subject of one’s one verb mode is: it offers one contract. By comparison, from inside the ‘His government are fascistic’, government is the subject of plural verb mode was: it has got plural contract.

In some varieties of English, cumulative nouns, which have a singular form but a collective meaning (for example audience, family, and team) may be used with either singular or plural agreement. For example, in British English it would be acceptable to say either ‘The team has lost’ (singular agreement) or ‘The team have lost’ (plural agreement); in American English, however, the latter is much less common.