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Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

In addition to the fabulous information given so far, please note, every word in a sentence has a form (what it looks like) and a function (what it does). Let's look at "up", its form and function in this sentence: 1. We called him up . Given the word order, we know right away that "up" is...

"At that time" means "at a particular MOMENT" - say, for example, ten past three on Sunday afternoon. "In that time" means "within a given INTERVAL" - say, the interval while you were at work yesterday. Both of the above are adverb phrases, because the preposition converts the noun phrase...