Examples I often eat vegetarian food. He never drinks milk. You must always fasten your seat belt. I am seldom late. He rarely lies. Examples This magazine is published monthly. He visits his mother once a week. I work five days a week. I saw the movie seven times. Examples Have you finished your work yet? Examples She is still waiting for you. Jim might still want some. Do you still work for the BBC? Are you still here? I am still hungry.
And do take care to locate them correctly and effectively. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! On the other hand, if something is, in fact, obvious to the reader, then the entire statement is unnecessary. You gave ys a very important and understandable way of use adverbs. Rep is a slang abbreviation of reputation, but it is not common. First , firstly or at first?
Fit or suit? Following or the following? For or since? Forget or leave? Full or filled? Fun or funny? Get or go? Grateful or thankful? Hear or listen to? High or tall? Historic or historical? House or home? How is …? If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie?
Lend or borrow? Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch? Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Maybe or perhaps? Nearest or next? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic? No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another?
Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people? Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite?
Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward? Wait or wait for? Wake , wake up or awaken?
Worth or worthwhile? Noun phrases: dependent words Noun phrases: order Noun phrases: uses Noun phrases: noun phrases and verbs Noun phrases: two noun phrases together. How does she sing? I opened the door wide. How did I open the door? She quickly finished her dinner. How did she finish? Adverbs of manner are usually placed after the main verb. He swims fast. It is possible to place the adverb before the verb.
This places emphasis on the adverb. She calmly announced that she had fallen in love with someone else. But some adverbs are always placed after the verb. These adverbs are: well , badly , hard , fast.
The team well played. The students tried hard. If the verb has an object , the adverb of manner is usually placed after the object, not between the verb and object. I opened wide the door. She typed the email hurriedly. However, it is still possible to place the adverb before the verb, to emphasise the adverb.
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