> I think what he's trying to say is that it's eaiser for him to think of > them as adverbials because they come at the beginning of the sentence > (or at least precede the OVS phrase), So he's using "adverb" to label the group which some of the people here label as "header". Adverbials are part of what some call the "header" group. Adverbials, time-stamps, locatives, etc. DloraH, BG