Swedish: An Essential Grammar, 2nd edition

participle.
De kan springa fort.
They can run fast.
Vi har sprungit hela vägen.
We have run the whole way.
De kom springande nerför gatan.
They came running down the
street.
Hunden är bortsprungen nu.
The dog has run off now.
Clausal adverbial
1 The clausal adverbial (CA) modifies the sense of the clause as a whole.
It is often a simple adverb:
FV
CA
etc.
Vi åker
inte
till Sverige på sommaren.
= not
alltid
= always
aldrig
= never
ofta
= often
sällan
= seldom
faktiskt
= actually
ju
= of course
Cf. Word order in the English main clause:
CA
FV
We
never
go
to Sweden in the summer.
2 Clausal adverbials are also called ‘mobile qualifiers’ as they adopt
different positions in the main clause compared with the subordinate
clause (see 12.3, 12.6.9, 12.7.5, 12.8.2, 12.8.3(2)).
3 Notice the relative order when there are several clausal adverbials:
(a) Short modal adverbs: