POSITION
OF ADVERBS
| A |
S |
A |
P
O |
A |
| In spring | Frank | often | gives parties | at his house. |
| There | we | always | play games. | |
| Jackie | usually | gets prizes | at parties. | |
| I | never | win one. | ||
| We | sometimes | sing songs | at school. | |
| Adverbs
of time and place |
How
often? |
Adverbs
of manner, place and time |
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Mind:
Never put an adverb between P and O! |
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| Adverbs of Manner / Place |
| They are usually placed after the direct object (if there is one), otherwise after the verb. |
| He speaks English well.
They walked quickly. She painted the picture here. I looked everywhere. |
| Adverbs of Time |
| These adverbs are normally placed at the end of a clause or sentence. |
| The boys said, “I will
do the work tomorrow”. The father said, “ You will do it now”. |
| In long sentences,
however, adverbs of time are placed at the beginning
of the sentence. At three in the morning I heard a loud knock on the front door. If we want to emphasize when, how
or where an action is done, the adverb can be placed at
the beginning of the sentence. |
| Tomorrow
we will go to London. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. |
| If there are several adverbs in a sentence the usual order in which they follow the verb is: |
|
Manner
(how?) |
Place
(where?) |
Time
(when?) |
|
|
She worked |
very
hard |
at
school |
last
week |
|
M |
P |
T |
| Adverbs of Frequency |
They are placed after
the simples tenses of to be: |
| They are placed before
the simple tenses of all other verbs: Tom often goes to work by car. |
| With tenses consisting of more
than one verb, they are placed after the first
one: Your car has probably been stolen. |