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Questions Two questions for me : What is adverbial ? How about its usage? Why does this textbook list just five sentence elements ? An adverbial is a sort of modifier, but it is a clause element, as distinguished from a modifier in the noun phrase. Adverbials fall into three categories: adjuncts(修饰性状语), disjuncts（评注性状语）, and conjuncts（连接性状语）. （more details on page 421） According hierarchy analysis, clause elements only include subject, predicate, object, complement/ predicative, and adverbial, without attribute. Because attribute/ attributive clause is the modifier of noun phrase other tha