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8.3. Position of adverbial modifiers of place and time in a sentence

Note that the place is usually put before the time. I didn 't see you at the party on Saturday night. I've been walking around the town all morning. We learned a lot of things at school today.

8.3.1. Put the words in the right order to make up a sentence.

1. the/haven't/since/been/I/last/to/year/theatre

2. don't/to/Sundays/go/on/we/school

3. students/last/meeting/the/to/didn't/Wednesday/come/the

4. evening/the/at/walk/he/for/in/usually/a/goes/five o'clock

5. to/going/London/next/few/am/a/I/days/week/for

6. Sweden/left/ago/she/town/two/her/for/years

7. should/the/to/every/dentist/months/you/go/six

8. I'll/to/tonight/think/early/go/bed/I

9. drives/work/every/to/Ann/car/her/day 10. sure/are/there/by/get/8 o'clock/we/to

3.4. Word order in statements containing adverbs

He always goes to work by car.

My parents have always lived in London.

I have never seen such a professional performance

before.

We are not always late. We are usually on time.

She doesn 't usually smoke.

Have you finished writing the letter yet?

He is still writing the letter.

Note: Adverbs of frequency (always, often, seldom, never, ever, usually, normally, rarely, etc) and the adverbs already, almost, hardly, nearly, still come after the auxiliary verb but before the main verb. In short answers they are put before the auxiliary: She often goes to London on business. - Yes, she often does.

8.4.1. Put the words in the right order to make up a sentence.

1. don't/work/on/I/Sundays/usually/to/have

2. has/probably/home/gone/he/early

3. you/take/a/ever/don't/break?

4. this/before/seen/you/ever/have/painting?

5. posted/have/yet/letter/you/the?

6. they/at/talking/about/5 o'clock/were/football/still

7. says/never/late/he/for/is/his/work/he

8. name/I/remember/his/can/never

9. television-set/often/our/down/breaks 10. has/very/always/been/she/generous

8.5. The order of adjectives before a noun

Position before the noun

Adjectives

1

adjectives that tell you what something is for: an expensive tennis racket

2

adjectives that say what something is made of: an expensive steel and nylon tennis racket

3

adjectives which tell you the origin of something where it comes from: Spanish leatlier sports boots

4

colour adjectives: black Spanish leather sports boots

5

adjectives of shape and size: a large red Dutch brick dwelling house

6

adjectives of age: an old large brown German glass beer-mug

7

adjectives of overall assessment and quality: a beautiful young tall brown-eyed Italian girl