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This document provides an overview of different types of adverbs and adverbial phrases, including examples. It discusses adverbs of time, frequency, manner, place, and sentence adverbs. It describes the typical positions of different types of adverbs in sentences and provides examples. The document concludes with a practice activity asking students to insert adverbs and adverbial phrases into sentences in their correct positions.

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Libyan International Medical

University
Faculty of Information Technology

English I
Types and Positions of Adverbs
Presenter:
By: Abdelsalam Elraggas
Email: [email protected]

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Content

• Adverbs and Adverbial phrases.


• Types of Adverbs and adverbial phrases.
• Position(s) of adverbs
Objectives

• Students will learn and practice different types of


Adverbs and adverbial phrases.
• Students will recognize different positions of
adverbs.
Types of Adverbs and Adverbial
phrases
Adverbs of Time
Yesterday, on Saturday, last week, last year , in May etc
1. See you on Saturday.
2. I will submit my project in April . When will you submit
your project?

Adverbs of frequency
Always, sometimes , usually, often , twice a week, monthly
etc
I always wake up at seven o’clock .
I often meet him at school
• Sentence adverbs ( modifying the whole sentence
or clause and often expressing degrees of certainty
and /or the speaker`s opinion)
Obviously/definitely /probably/luckily/ naturally/
hopefully.
The new system is definitely an improvement on the
old one.
Hopefully, I `ll be there before 10 o`clock.
Position of adverbs
Adverbs of manner, place, and time usually go after an intransitive verb or after a transitive
verb+ object.
Adverbs of manner:
The children sat quietly.
They did the work quickly.

Adverbs of place
They stayed in a hotel.
I bought these shoes in the market.

Adverbs of time
They arrived this morning.
I saw Steve last night.
• Adverbs of manner , place and time can sometimes
be placed at the beginning of a sentence for
emphasis.
Slowly, the door started to open.
In Tampa, we stayed in a beautiful beach villa.
Last weekend, I stayed in and did a lots of work.
• It is also possible to place adverbs of manner and
adverbs of indefinite time between the subject and
the verb.
Peter stupidly went out without locking the door.
I recently changed my job.
• If there is more than one kind of adverb in a
sentence, the order is usually: manner, place, time:
Jennifer waited anxiously at the airport for five hours.
• Adverbs of definite frequency, e.g. once, twice, three
times a week, daily, every afternoon, on Saturdays,
again, are usually placed at the end of a sentence.
I go swimming twice a week.
I wake up at seven o`clock every morning
• Adverbs of indefinite frequency e.g. Always, usually,
sometimes, often, never, usually go after an auxiliary or the
verb to be and before a full verb:
I am usually in bed before midnight.
I have always wanted to go there.
We sometimes meet for lunch.
• The adverbs like frequently, normally, occasionally,
sometimes, usually, always/ never ( in the imperative), can
also go at the beginning of a sentence for special emphasis.
• Sometimes he agrees to help me with my homework.
• Never do that again !
• Adverbs of degree, e.g. quite, hardly, too, usually go
before the words they modify:
Quite nice
Quite slowly
I quite enjoyed it.
• Sentence adverbs, e.g. Clearly , generally, honestly,
evidently, can go at the beginning of a sentence.
Clearly, the situation is very serious
• Or they can go before the verb
• I honestly believe that this is the best thing we can do.
• Practice
• Write the sentences with the adverbs/adverbial phrases in
brackets in the correct position. If the adverbs can go in
more than one position, put them in the more usual one.
1. I have been working ( in my office/ all morning/ hard)
...............................................................................................
2. He speaks to me ( in the mornings/ never/ nicely)
………………………………………………………
3. We were listening(all evening/ carefully)
………………………………………………………….
• Practice
• Write the sentences with the adverbs/adverbial phrases
in brackets in the correct position. If the adverbs can
go in more than one position, put them in the more
usual one.
1. I have been working ( in my office/ all morning/ hard)
. I have been working hard in my office all morning.
2. He speaks to me ( in the mornings/ never/ nicely).
He never speaks to me nicely in the mornings.
3. We were listening(all evening/ carefully)
We were listening carefully all evening.
References

• Textbook
• Walker, E. & Elsworth, S. (2000) Grammar
Practice for Upper Intermediate Students. Pearson
Education Limited.

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