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Conjunctive adverbs, or simply "conjuncts", do exist, and are different from sentence adverbials.These conjuncts link sentences or paragraphs and usually appear at the beginning of a sentence. The adverbials Anonymous mentioned in their first post, those that tell us something...

Isn't "to have met you" a noun phrase (an infinitive phrase)? A clause requires a finite verb, and an infinitive ("to have") is a nonfinite verb. Anyway, "to have met you" modifies the adjective "glad", so I guess it could be seen as a kind of adverb. Unfortunately, these grammatical terms...

Hello CJ again, Thank you for the detailed explanation. I'll review what you've taught me. "The thief would be nice to catch" sounds best fit the review, so please allow me to use it. #1 (IC) . The IC appears, by the transformation, to get changed from a noun phrase to a complement (or...

You need a verb to have a clause. I think you meant "The GMC cannot investigate every controversial treatment brought to its attention". This verb phrase has a clause within another clause. The outer clause is a causative ("get"), so it has an inner clause "industries to reduce waste"...