Word Order - Position of Adverbs | English Grammar Lesson (Part 2) | B1-Intermediate

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[LucyLabrador]

I am a native English speaker, but I found this lesson useful because I plan to become a writer one day. Sometimes, going back to the basics helps me to use correct English and grammar.

[AngloLinkEnglish]

I agree with you. Adverbs can go in several places in a sentence, depending on how much you want to stress them. However, for someone who is just learning the language, it is more reassuring to know where they usually go. As for common mistakes native speakers make, I take your point that one has to be discerning as to whose speech one models.

[vivekvenu]

You are a classic english teacher ever. I am very fond of your ingenious elucidation about english.

[AngloLinkEnglish]

You are right. According to the order I recommend, 'heavily' should go before 'rained'. I do believe that I say in my introduction that my two lessons on Word Order are general guidelines to help you to make correct sentences. However, there are always exceptions and alternatives, which native speakers just have a feeling for. In this case, 'It rained heavily.' sounds better than 'It heavily rained.' and as NichMay24 says above, 'soon' can also be put at the end of the sentence.

[AngloLinkEnglish]

The 'how' usually goes after the 'where' and the 'when'. However, it is true that if there is a 'where' and a 'when', the 'ly' adverb becomes too far apart from the verb. In this case, I would recommend that you put the 'ly' adverb before the verb: I quickly solved the problem at home yesterday.

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[AngloLinkEnglish]

This sentence follows the word order very well. Well done.

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[radicalwoman]

I like this series, it helps me with often forgotten functions of words.

[DridgeDEU]

Is it really THAT simple in English? I'm German and we have a very complex word order. The simplicity (and thus resulting beauty) of your language blows my mind!

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[AngloLinkEnglish]

The aim of the guidelines I give in my grammar lessons is to help non-native speakers to speak and write correctly and confidently. Listing all the exceptions and alternatives will only confuse and demotivate most of the learners. My recommendation to advanced learners who wish to know the alternatives and exceptions is to listen to native speakers as often as possible to begin to gradually notice the most common ones.

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