C1.1A

Adverbs and adverbial phrases

C1.1A​

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of an adverb?

• a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, phrase, or adverb.

• a word that is used to say that someone does something or that something happens.

• a word that describes a noun or pronoun.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a clause?

• a word that describes a noun or pronoun.

• a group of words containing a subject and a verb, that is usually only part of a sentence

• a word that is used to say that someone does something or that something happens.

Obviously I usually study after work.

End

Multiple Choice

What type of adverb is this?:

I write very slowly.

• Manner

• Place

• Time

Multiple Choice

What type of adverb is this?:

I live nearby so we’ll be there soon.

• Manner

• Place

• Time

In spoken English, adverbials of manner, place and time usually go at the end of the clause, after the verb and the object.

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I live nearby so we’ll be there soon.

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Open Ended

Can you give us an example of an adverbial or adverbial phrase of manner, time or place at the end of the clause?

Multiple Choice

What type of adverbs or adverbial phrases are these?:

We have a test every couple of weeks.

I go there regularly.

• Frequency

• Manner

• Place

Adverbial phrases of frequency usually go in the end position. Some

single-word frequency adverbs take this position too:

sometimes, occasionally, regularly ...

Open Ended

Can you give us an example of an adverb or adverbial phrase of frequency at the end of the clause?

Rule

​Don’t place adverbs between the verb and the direct object:

She did the work too quickly.

I’m sure I ’ll meet her someday.​

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Open Ended

Correct the sentence:

She did too quickly the work.

Multiple Choice

What is the order of the type of adverbs and adverbial phrases?:

We didn’t sleep well on those airbeds last night.

• manner,

  place, time

• time, place, manner

• place, manner, time

Exeptions

I came here on foot.

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I came on foot here.​

I quickly decided to take the job.

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She made the effort to drive carefully.

Middle

Multiple Choice

Which one is the incorrect option?:

At last I got home.

I at last got home.

I got home at last.

• At last I got home.

• I at last got home.

• I got home at last.

Good exam results don ’t inevitably mean success in later life.

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Grammar is usually my weakest point.

Open Ended

What type of adverbs or adverbial phrases are these?:

Good exam results don ’t inevitably mean success in later life.

Grammar is usually my weakest point.

Rule

Many adverbs of frequency (never, always, ever) and certain time adverbs (just, still) can only go in the middle position.

She still practises her Japanese.

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She practices her Japanese still.

Still she practices her Japanes.​

Rule

​Adverbs of certainty usually go after auxiliaries, but they go before contracted negative auxiliaries.

I’ll probably see you soon.

She probably/definitely can’t hear you.​

Open Ended

Can you give us an example of an adverb or adverbial phrase in the middle position of a clause?

Front

Multiple Choice

What type of adverbs or adverbial phrases are these?:

Obviously, he knows his grammar.

However, he isn’t as fluent as he’d

like to be.

• linking, comment

• comment, manner

• linking, time

Rule

​Adverbials of time, place and frequency can also go at the front, when we want to set the scene or change the focus.

In London there are plenty of jobs.

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Every so often I forget the word for ‘window’ in French.

Open Ended

Can you give us an example of an adverb or adverbial phrase in the front position of a clause?

Modifying adverbs and adjectives

Rule

Adverbials of degree go directly before the word(s) they modify.

Laura speaks German reasonably well but her French is a bit basic.

Rule

Adverbs can be modified by phrases with prepositions.

I drove here slowly by my standards.

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Luckily for you, I 'm in a good mood.