English-2
Grade-7
Easy

Question

Identify the adverbial phrase in the sentence.
“Sally threw the football to her friend.”

  1. Threw the football
  2. Sally threw
  3. To her friend
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

An adverbial phrase is a group of two or more words which act together like an adverb to add further detail to a verb, adjective, or other adverbs in a sentence.

The correct answer is: To her friend


    'Sally threw football to her friend,' 'to her friend' is a prepositional phrase that uses the preposition 'to' and the object 'friend'. In this case, the prepositional phrase functions as an adverb in the sentence. So, in this sentence adverbial phrase is 'to her friend'.

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