Adverbial
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In linguistics, an adverbial is a sentence function like subject and object and so on. Adverbials typically express content that is considered to be secondary or non-essential to the sentence it appears in.
Three types of adverbial are typically recognized: adjunct, disjunct, and conjunct (although several more are proposed in various theories).
The terms 'adverbial' and 'adverb' are very often mistaken for each other, but they are not the same thing. An adverb is a member of a Part of speech category - i.e. it is a form - whereas an adverbial is a syntactic function.