with great difficulty 是状语？

Question

Alaska became the forty-ninth state of the United States in 1958.Ninety years earlier secretary of State Seward had with great difficulty persuaded the Congress to buy it from Russia for $15 000 000.for many years people who failed to recognize the widdom of this action called Alaska"Seward's Folly" -- a foolish act.

1、with great difficulty 是状语？

Answer 1

对的. with difficulty 等于difficutiely做状语修饰persuade.

Answer 2

with...是伴随状语,表示该动作伴随着什么的发生。
这里意思是伴随很大的困难。

Answer 3

是的，这叫做方式状语。本回答被提问者采纳