Expressing Purpose

... informational text. 2. Develop and apply skills and strategies to ... Use adjectives/adverbs in sentences. EE.L.1.1.f. With guidance and support ... ... clause-like adverbial phrases. Much work has also been done on the prosody of adjuncts, which can reveal some of their informational properties (cf. Selkirk ... Thus, comparing these two adverbs allows us to zero in on the contribution of specific semantic information encoded in the adverbial expression and its relation ... May 23, 2019 ... Relative Items (Adverbs, Fused/Nominal, and Pronouns) *Informational* ... "When" in the first sentence is purely adverbial, connecting its adverb ... adverbial phrase - A prepositional phrase that modifies a verb, an adjective ... thesaurus - A book of words or of information about a particular field or ... Expository texts use a technique called “end-focus”, where new, more important information is placed at the end of the sentence. To accomplish this, adverbial ... and Attachment Site of the Adverbial Phrase (VP1, with the verb of the adverbial clause in ... phrase length and informational content in sentence comprehension. How do you know?” (This phrase gives us more information about what a food detective does. ... Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases and Clauses (describing verbs, ... ... (information status) and expect sentence-initial adverbial clauses to contain given information. We suggest that sentences with initial adverbial clauses ... adverbial phrase: An adverbial phrase acts like an adverb and answers when ... nonrestrictive clause: A nonrestrictive clause is additional information that is.