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.

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.

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 ...

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