Inside the house (An adverbial) Making a chair with bamboo (A phrase with a gerund) On the other hand, a clause is an expression/a group of words with a subject and a predicate.

An essential relative clause provides necessary, defining information about the noun. On the other hand, non‐ essential relative clauses provide additional, non‐necessary information about the noun.

This quintessentially polite request was made by Forum member Na30r some years back: “If you don’t mind please explain the ‘reducing of adverb clauses.’” (When someone makes a request in such nuanced ...

In this case, ‘Not until I saw what happened’ is the adverbial clause. The inversion takes place after this, in the main clause. This happens with 'Not +time' and 'Only + time'.

Adverbial clauses are identifiable because they begin with subordinating conjunctions, namely, ‘unless’ ‘after’, ‘if’, ‘because’ and ‘although’ etcetera.

A fronted adverbial is when the adverbial word or phrase is moved to the front of the sentence, before the verb. Earlier today, I discovered fronted adverbials.