Tasks based on Chapter 8 The semantics and grammar of adverbials Read Chapter 8 from A Student’s
Grammar of the English Language by Greenbaum and Quirk and answer the following questions.

1. Which grammatical functions of adverbials do you know?



2. What do you know about subjuncts?




3. What is the difference between predication and sentence adjuncts?




4. Which grammatical function of adverbials is close to other sentence elements?




5. Which types of disjuncts can be distinguished?




6. Name several semantic roles of disjuncts and present their examples!





7. Which clause positions of adverbials do you know?




8. Which formal realizations of adverbials do you know? Present one example of each possibility!





9. Which semantic roles of adjuncts do you know?




10. Which grammatical functions of adverbials are usually placed initially and  separated by
commas.