Position of Adverbs - Application 1

Which sentence is the adverb correctly placed?

• We should come back tomorrow perhaps.

• We should come perhaps back tomorrow.

• Perhaps we should come back tomorrow.

• We perhaps should come back tomorrow.

Which sentence is the adverb correctly placed?

• Outside the members of the team are drinking.

• The members of the team are drinking outside.

• The outside members of the team are drinking.

• The members of the team are outside drinking.

Which sentence gives more emphasis to the adverb?

• They accepted the award wholeheartedly.

• Wholeheartedly, they accepted the award.

• They wholeheartedly accepted the award.

• They accepted the wholeheartedly award.

True or false. Adverbs of manner not ending in -ly (like well, hard, and fast) can only appear in the end position.

• true

• false

Which sentence is correct?

• I speak with my mother daily.

• Daily I speak with my mother.

• I speak daily with my mother.

• I speak with my daily mother.

Which two adverb positions are possible?

• Peter every day goes to school.

• Peter goes to school every day.

• Peter goes every day to school.

• Every day, Peter goes to school.

Which adverb cannot go in the end-position?

• We visited her last month.

• She will visit soon.

• I really like it also.

• I find it difficult too.

Which sentence emphasizes the adverb of time?

• Today, I am leaving for Paris.

• We planned today to eat out.

• It's my birthday today.

• She said we would go tomorrow.

Which sentence construction is common in writing:

• There is a man outside.

• There is an outside man.

• None

• Outside, there is a man.

Which is a wrong construction.

• I always tell myself to be brave.

• I never tell myself to be brave.

• Always I tell myself to be brave.

• I usually take the bus.