Circumstantial complement
It is called a circumstantial complement to the syntactic function performed by an adverbial phrase, a noun phrase, a prepositional phrase or a subordinate sentence, which indicates some semantic circumstance of time, place or mode to the verb of which it is a complement. Sometimes even amount, cause, possibility or purpose. ▪ In the case of a quantity circumstantial, it can be: quite, little, much, too, etc. ▪ In cases of a circumstantial of time the following are found: today, already, still, then, Monday, Tuesday, etc. ▪ In circumstantial cases, there are: here, near, above, in the forest, etc. All these phrases can be substituted between them, to commute or to replace: the adverb or adverbial phrase for a prepositional phrase, and the prepositional phrase for an adverb or adverbial phrase. However, by no means, an adverbial phrase or adverb can be replaced by a prepositional phrase ...