Adjectives and Adverbs of Frequency

A pair of

• 1.    old dirty socks

• 1.    socks dirty old

• 1.    dirty old socks

• 1.    socks old dirty

Answer explanation

Opinion (dirty), Size, Age (old), Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose.

a(n)

• 1.    intelligent young doctor

• 1.    young intelligent doctor

• 1.    doctor young and intelligent

• 1.    doctor intelligent young

Answer explanation

Opinion (intelligent), Size, Age (young), Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose.

a(n)

• 1.    old car park big

• 1.    old big car park

• 1.    big old car park

• 1.    big car park old

Answer explanation

Opinion, Size (big), Age (old), Shape, Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose.

a

• 1.    red glamorous leather jacket

• 1.    leather glamorous red jacket

• 1.    glamorous leather red jacket

• 1.    glamorous red leather jacket

Answer explanation

Opinion (glamorous), Size, Age, Shape, Colour (red), Origin, Material (leather), Purpose.

a

• 1.    tall handsome thin man

• 1.    handsome tall thin man

• 1.    thin handsome tall man

• 1.    handsome thin tall man

Answer explanation

Opinion (handsome), Size (tall), Age, Shape (thin), Colour, Origin, Material, Purpose.

Which sentence is correct?

• Never we eat fast food.

• We eat never fast food.

• We eat fast food never.

• We never eat fast food.

Answer explanation

Adverbs of frequency go before the verb.

Which sentence is correct?

• Our teacher is often late.

• Our teacher often is late.

• Is often our teacher late?

• Often our teacher is late.

Answer explanation

Adverbs of frequency go before the verb, but after the verb be.
In questions, adverbs of frequency go after the auxiliary verb + subject.

Which sentence is correct?

• Do often you go to the cinema?

• Do you often go to the cinema?

• Do you go often to the cinema?

• Do you go to the cinema often?

Answer explanation

In questions, adverbs of frequency go after the subject.

Which sentence is correct?

• My father doesn't hardly ever watch football on TV.

• My father watches hardly ever football on TV.

• My father watches football on TV hardly ever.

• My father hardly ever watches football on TV.

Answer explanation

Adverbs of frequency go before the verb.
The adverbs never and hardly ever (=almost never) have a negative meaning, but they are used with a positive verb.

Which sentence is correct?

• He usually doesn't go to bed late.

• He doesn't go to bed late usually.

• He doesn't usually go to bed late.

• Does he go usually late to bed?

Answer explanation

In negative sentences the adverb of frequency goes after don’t/doesn’t.
In questions, adverbs of frequency go after the auxiliary verb + subject.