Question

identify the grammatical name of the words in upper case in the sentence below . UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, the robbers were arrested. a. adverbial phrase. b.noun phrase. c. adjectival phrase. d.verb phrase​

Answer 1

The grammatical name of the words in uppercase, is adverbial phrase.

• The adverbial phrase is a group of words which describes the main verb or action of a sentence by answering questions starting with how,why,where,when about the occuring action.
• Similarly, the marked words in the given sentence justifies the nature of the main verb of the sentence. Here, the arresting of the robbers is the main action which is unfortunate for them. So, basically it's a "how" question derivation about the main verb.
• That's why, we can consider this as an adverbial phrase.