VOA慢速英语:Adventures with Adverbials: Part 1

character – n. a person in a story or play; a person who does funny or unusual things

gangster – n. a member of a criminal group

scene – n. a part of a play or movie in which a particular action takes place

phrase – n. a group of two or more words that express a single idea but do not usually form a complete sentence

prepositional phrase – n. A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends in a noun, pronoun, or

noun phrase – n. a group of words that acts like a noun in a sentence

adverbial prepositional phrase – n. a prepositional phrase that modifies or describes a verb