• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:
• Introduction (Adverbials)
§ 8.1, 478
• Adjuncts
§ 8.25 504-505
• Subcategories of adjunct
§8.26 505
• Obligatory predication adjuncts
§§8.27-8.33 505-510
• Optional predication adjuncts
§8.34 510
• Position of predication adjuncts
§8.35 511
• Sentence adjuncts
§§8.36-8.38 511-514
further notes:
1. As the authors of CGEL point out in §8.25, 504-5, the similarity of adjuncts to other sentence elements is reflected in their ability to act as the focus of a cleft sentence; as “contrasts” in alternative interrogation or negation; and as the focus of focusing subjuncts