Question

The Statue of Liberty has stood "for more than 100 years" in New York Harbor. adverb phrase adjective appositive phrase adverb

can you give me an example of an adverb phrase?

Answer 1

The phrase "for more than 100 years" is an adverbial phrase that denotes a time and is therefore known also as a temporal adverbial phrase.

Another example of an adverb phrase would be:

"Before electricity", people had to use candles.

Before electricity is an adverbial phrase that shows when something occurred.