meant that misconduct went undetected for a number of years. Barclaysâ control and risk functions failed to challenge effectively the management of these risks in the FX business. 2.8 Barclaysâ failings in its FX business allowed the following behaviours to occur: (1) Attempts to manipulate the WMR and the ECB fix rates in
A phrase can be either a prepositional phrase (preposition + noun-object) or a participial phrase (participle form of a verb, with possible a direct object and/or adverb). If it modifies a verb, an adjective, or adverb, then itâs an adverbial phrase.) Participial phrases can modify an entire clause. In case #1, the participial phrase is acting as an adjective, that is, as an adjectival phrase. In cases #2 & #3, the participial phrase is acting as an adverb, that is, as an adverbial phrase.
This clause is an adverbial clause. It is a group of words with a subject and a verb, and it is acting as one part of speech, an adverb. Adverbial clauses are introduced by special words called subordinating conjunctions. Subordinating conjunctions link adverb clauses with the word in the independent clause that the adverb clause is modifying.