Editing English grammar (section)

====Phrases<span class="anchor" id="Adverb phrases"></span>====
An [[adverb phrase]] is a phrase that acts as an adverb within a sentence.<ref name=carter-mccarthy-p312>{{Harvnb|Carter|McCarthy|2006|p=312}}</ref> An adverb phrase may have an adverb as its [[head (linguistics)|head]], together with any modifiers (other adverbs or adverb phrases) and complements, analogously to the [[#Adjective phrases|adjective phrases]]{{Broken anchor|date=2025-05-05|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=#Adjective phrases|reason= The anchor (Adjective phrases) [[Special:Diff/838103608|has been deleted]].|diff_id=838103608}} described above. For example: ''very sleepily''; ''all too suddenly''; ''oddly enough''; ''perhaps shockingly for us''.

Another very common type of adverb phrase is the [[prepositional phrase]], which consists of a preposition and its object: ''in the pool''; ''after two years''; ''for the sake of harmony''.