What is an Adjunct?

 

Adjuncts are words, phrases or clauses that accompany an Intransitive verb which answer the question where, how and when the action took place. For example, in the sentence “ He spoke last night”, “last night” is a phrase which answers the question when. Similarly in the sentence, “He spoke at the seminar”, “at the seminar” is the answer to the question where. In the sentence, “He spoke uneasily”, the word uneasily answers the question how.
Even if adjunct part of the sentence is removed it does not affect the other words in the sentence.