Libyan International Medical

University
Faculty of Information Technology

English I
Types and Positions of Adverbs
Presenter:
By: Abdelsalam Elraggas
Email: Abdelsalam.elraggas@limu.edu.ly

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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.