verb patterns - adverbials

A clause often has one or more adverbial phrases:

• The children laughed happily.
  (N + V + Adv)
• All the girls are learning English at school in the second year.
  (N + V + Adv + Adv)
• Last year Mary and the family were driving to Madrid in an old bus.
  (Adv + N + V + Adv + Adv)
• She put the flowers carefully in a vase.
  (N + V + N + Adv + Adv)

 Exercise