Question

We played on the playground. (Underline the adverbial)​

Answer 1

playground is the answer

Answer 2

'On the playground' is the adverbial phrase in the sentence.

About adverbial phrase:

• Phrases are a group of words that have an incomplete meaning in the sentence.
• Adverbial phrases are those which do the function of an adverb.
• Adverbial phrases are words that qualify a verb or an adjective or another adverb in a sentence.
• In the sentence given here, we have a verb 'played'.
• 'On the playground' is a phrase. It denotes a place.
• Moreover, this phrase qualifies the word 'played'.
• That is this phrase tells something about verb 'played' -'where did they play?'
• As it qualifies a verb, this phrase 'on the playground' is the adverbial phrase in the sentence.
• Additionally, as this tells about the place, this is an adverbial phrase of place.