Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Position
of
Adverbs
- Manner (slowly, fluently)
- after the verb or verb phrase
- They walked aggressively through the city
- With passive verbs they go in mid-position
- Mike was seriously injured
- Frequency
- Before the main verb and after the verb "to be"
- He is always on time
- The adverbs: sometimes,
usually and normally can
also be put at the
beginning
- If there are 2 auxiliaries, the adverb goes after the first one
- He has always been with me
- Time and Place
- At the end of the sentence or clause
- My mother will be here in a minute
- Place adverbs go before time adverbs
- Degree
- Extremely, incredibly, very...etc = before
adjectives and adverbs
- a lot and much=after verbs
- a little, a bit (of) = before adjectives and after verbs
- Comment
- They give the speaker's opinion and go at the
beginning of the sentence or clause
- luckily, basically, clearly, obviously, apparently, eventually