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English Grammar Drills

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Order of adverbs<br />

Adverbs 209<br />

There is a strong tendency to use the different classes of adverbs in a certain left-to-right order.<br />

People usually follow this order when they use more than one class of adverb: (1) manner, (2)<br />

place, (3) time, (4) reason.<br />

Here are some examples:<br />

Manner Place Time Reason<br />

I bought some<br />

sandwiches<br />

at the<br />

grocery<br />

this<br />

morning<br />

for lunch<br />

You need to practice seriously every day<br />

to get any<br />

better<br />

The plane circled<br />

the field<br />

with its<br />

engine<br />

roaring<br />

all<br />

afternoon<br />

It rained<br />

heavily<br />

in the<br />

mountains<br />

during the<br />

night<br />

due to a<br />

warm front<br />

I found an<br />

apartment for Anne<br />

by<br />

advertising<br />

in the<br />

paper<br />

Sunday<br />

Fred did the dishes<br />

after<br />

breakfast<br />

because<br />

there<br />

wasn’t a<br />

clean dish<br />

in the<br />

house<br />

The pipe started<br />

leaking<br />

badly<br />

under the<br />

sink<br />

this<br />

morning<br />

Exercise 12.10<br />

Move the adverbs in each of the following sentences to follow the proper manner-place-timereason<br />

left-to-right order.<br />

because it was so hot in our kitchen last night at a restaurant We ate dinner.<br />

We ate dinner at a restaurant last night because it was so hot in our kitchen.

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