https://globalmainstreamjournal.com/index.php/IJASS/issue/feed 2026-03-12T08:07:50+00:00 Principal editor@globalmainstreamjournal.com Open Journal Systems <p><strong>International Journal of Arts and Social Science </strong>is an open-access, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, and online journal. GMJ aims to contribute to the constant scientific research and training, so as to promote research in different fields of basic and applied sciences. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence in all the fields of basic and applied sciences.</p> https://globalmainstreamjournal.com/index.php/IJASS/article/view/246 2026-03-12T08:07:50+00:00 Md. Abul Bashar asd@gmail.com Farjana Yasmin editor@globalmainstreamjournal.com

<p>The relationship between adverbs and adverbials has long been obscured by traditional grammatical descriptions that fail to differentiate clearly between lexical category and syntactic function. In many pedagogical contexts, any expression modifying a verb or clause is labeled an “adverb,” resulting in terminological confusion and analytical inaccuracy. This article&nbsp; re-examines the issue from a modern linguistic perspective and argues that adverbs and adverbials operate on two distinct planes of grammatical organization. An adverb is a member of a word class defined by morphological and distributional properties while an adverbial is a functional element within clause structure that may be realized by a wide range of forms including adverbs, noun phrases, prepositional phrases, finite clauses and non-finite constructions.</p> <p>Using insights from structural grammar, functional linguistics and corpus-based analysis, this article demonstrates that the relationship between the two is non-reciprocal: while every adverb has the potential to function adverbially, many adverbials do not contain adverb at all. Reliable examples from contemporary English illustrate how circumstantial meanings like time, place, manner, cause and condition are more frequently expressed through phrasal and clausal constructions than through single-word adverbs. The study&nbsp; aims to&nbsp; highlight the theoretical significance of maintaining the form–function distinction for proper&nbsp; syntactic description and argues that collapsing the two categories leads to oversimplified grammatical models. Finally, this paper explores pedagogical implications, proposing that English grammar instruction should emphasize structural awareness rather than suffix-based identification, thereby contributing to clearer grammatical theory and more effective language teaching.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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