Adverb position1 Match the adverb positions to the definitions and the example sentences.. front position after the verb He usually played better than this.. mid position before the subj
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1 Match the adverb positions to the definitions and the example sentences.
front position after the verb He usually played better than this.
They’ll definitely go to the party.
mid position before the subject I’ve been waiting patiently.
end position between the subject and the verb (or
immediately after be as main verb
Finally we managed to contact her.
2 Put the adverbs in the right place in the sentences.
1 We saw them playing tennis often / in the park
2 They began to meet before long / every week
3 Ron had visited the Taj Mahal never / before
4 I disagreed with his suggestions totally / at the meeting
5 The players met for the first time only / yesterday
6 We play tennis with Liz and Adam on Sundays / always
3 Put the words in the right order to make sentences. 1 always / at nine o'clock / out of the garage / in the morning / drives / his car / he
2 he / to town / after breakfast / often / Mrs Hodges / takes
3 a parking place / near the shops / they / find / rarely
4 sometimes / in a garage / Mr Hodges / his car / parks
5 fly / with my parents / to Florida / hardly ever / I / in winter
6 late / came / last year / she / often / to school / in spring
7 often / have / at about three o'clock / a cup of tea / they / at the hotel / in the afternoon
8 meet / at the sports ground / they / after dinner / always / their friends
9 enjoys / very much / swimming / in our pool / always / in the morning / she
10 hardly / last year / could / ski / he
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1 We together walked to the end of the garden
2 So far in my new job I have mainly had to deal with complaints
3 I just have bought a new car
4 He speaks fluently five languages
5 Jenny has been appointed recently Professor of Nursing
6 I was totally unprepared for the news
7 It was now time for me to make my speech
8 He had been to London never before
9 Susan became soon bored with the new toys
10 John frequently was away from home in his new job
11 They are at home these days hardly ever
12 I could never understand why he got so annoyed
13 We had already been given three presents
14 Although he’s 60, he still enjoys playing football
15 I have always liked very much dancing Sevillanas
5 Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences.
1 Helen takes the bus to work usually
2 I finished my thesis in April of last year finally
3 He doesn’t know my name still
4 We have a greater understanding of the underlying problem now
5 Japanese political scientists have claimed that most TV news is unbiased recently
6 I forgot when the appointment was completely
7 It seems we will never understand the implications of the accident fully
8 It became clear that the results were not what they expected soon
9 The evidence has been presented in this way seldom
10 A list of candidates had been submitted already
6 Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences.
1 When he died, his political enemies agreed that he was a good man even
2 I didn’t expect her to do anything, but when I came down Ella had tidied up and made tea even
3 30,000 cases of measles were reported during September alone
4 He asked for volunteers, but Alice put up her hand only
5 The printer couldn’t print fifteen pages a minute even
6 The tickets cost more than I could afford I certainly wouldn’t be able to pay for the hotel as well alone
7 Please take my comments as guidelines just / only
8 We’ve just realised that it was their tenth anniversary only
9 The solution was heated to 100ºC then
10 He goes on to discuss the economic crisis in detail then