«جلستُ أمامَكَ» gives the place of sitting; «سافرتُ صباحًا» specifies the time of travelling. The base event is intelligible without either addition, but its circumstances remain less precise.
An adverbial is not mere ornament when time or location matters to the point being made. Unneeded circumstances can also obscure what should be foregrounded.
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Al-Itlaq wa al-Taqyid: Rhetorical Functions of Unrestricted and Qualified Expression
«جلستُ أمامَكَ» gives the place of sitting; «سافرتُ صباحًا» specifies the time of travelling. The base event is intelligible without either addition, but its circumstances remain less precise.
An adverbial is not mere ornament when time or location matters to the point being made. Unneeded circumstances can also obscure what should be foregrounded.