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adverb position (3): end position 23
5 place: at the end of the garden, here, there
Place adverbs most often go in end position, but front position is possible, especially in literary writing and if the adverb is not the main focus of the message. In this case the verb often comes before the subject (see 303).
At the end ofthe garden stood a very tall tree.
On the grass sat an enormous frog. Down came the rain.
Here and there often begin clauses. Note the word order in Here/There is, Here comes and There goes.
Here comes your bus. (NOT Here ytJ~,. bliS remes.)
There's Alice. There goes our train!
Pronoun subjects come directly after here and there.
Here it comes. (NOT IIere remes it.) There she is. (NOT There is she.)
6 time: today, afterwards, in June, soon, evety week
Front position is common if the adverb is not the main focus of the message. Today I'm going to London. In June we went to Cornwall.
Afterwards we sat round and talked. Soon everything will be different. End-position is also common; soon can go in mid-position
Time expressions beginning every can go in front position.
Every week she has a new hairstyle.
But other expressions of definite frequency (e.g. daily, weekly) normally go in end position.
For rarely, seldom, never, hardly and scarcely in front pOSition before verb + subject ('inversion'), see 302.7.
23 adverb position (3): end position
Adverbs of manner, place and time usually go in end position, often in that order. Adverbs of indefinite frequency (e.g. occasionally) sometimes go in end position.
1 adverbs of manner
Adverbs of manner say how something happens or is done.
Examples: angrily, happily, fast, slowly, well, badly, nicely, noisily, quietly, hard, softly.
He drove offangrily. She read the letter slowly. You speak English well John works really hard.
Adverbs in -ly can also go in mid-position i f the adverb is not the main focus of the message.
She angrily tore up the letter. I slowly began to feel better again.
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