In linguistics, a disjunct is a type of adverbial that expresses information that is not considered essential to the sentence it appears in, but which is considered to be the speaker's or writer's attittude towards, or descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence. For instance:

• Honestly, I didn't do it.
• Fortunately for you, I have it right here.
• In my opinion, the green one is better.

Sometimes, it may be difficult to distinguish between disjuncts and adjuncts as in the case of She sang beautifully in the shower, where beautifully is ambiguous; does it refer to the manner in which she sang or the way I judge her singing?

See also

• adjunct
• conjunct
• adverbial

Parts of speech