Position of

Frequency Adverbs
Take notes
 Subject + Adverb + Verb + Complement

• I often visit my parents.

• He always buys comics.
Subject + be + adverb + complement

• He is always late for college.

• I am often ready for work at 6 am.
• He is never worried about his
finances.
 Negatives
The adverb of frequency goes between the
do and does and the main verb.

• We don’t USUALLY watch TV after lunch.

• They can’t ALWAYS wait for you.
 Negative: it goes after ‘to be’

• I am not always this organized.

• They aren’t usually late.
 Questions
Do/Does + subject + adverb of frequency + verb.

• Do you ALWAYS eat here?

• Does he USUALLY do that?
 NEGATIVE adverbs
NEVER SELDOM
RARELY HARDLY EVER

• This is incorrect because it has a DOUBLE

NEGATIVE.

• WRONG: The weather isn’t never sunny.

• CORRECT: The weather IS NEVER sunny.
Take note: SOMETIMES
Sometimes can go before the subject,
before the verb and after the verb.

• Sometimes we go fishing.
• We sometimes go fishing.
• We go fishing sometimes.
 More Info at:
• https://www.englishgrammar.org/position-fre
quency-adverbs/

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/spanish
/course/lower-intermediate/unit-4/tab/gram
mar
• Modals
For example:
Can: Laura can sometimes hold her breath
for over a minute.