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Adverbial Phrases of Frequency, Time and Place

1) This document discusses different types of adverbial phrases including those describing frequency, time, and place. 2) Adverbial phrases of frequency describe how often something happens using words like daily, weekly, monthly, annually, etc. 3) Adverbs of time are used to talk about when something occurs and include words like today, tomorrow, now, then, etc. Adverbs of place specify where something happens and include words like inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs, here, there, abroad, etc.

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Adverbial Phrases of Frequency, Time and Place

1) This document discusses different types of adverbial phrases including those describing frequency, time, and place. 2) Adverbial phrases of frequency describe how often something happens using words like daily, weekly, monthly, annually, etc. 3) Adverbs of time are used to talk about when something occurs and include words like today, tomorrow, now, then, etc. Adverbs of place specify where something happens and include words like inside, outside, upstairs, downstairs, here, there, abroad, etc.

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Multifluent

Adverbial phrases
of frequency, time
and place
An adverbial phrase is...
1
a group of words which always go
together. they describe where, when
or how often something happens.

Adverbial phrases of
2 frequency
describe how often something
happens.
Examples:
very morning, every afternoon// every day –

Use: 3 daily // every week – weekly // every month –


monthly // every year – annually//
every Sunday – on Sundays – on Sunday
afternoons // once a day
twice a day// three / four / five times a day.
Form:
1) Adverbs of frequency often go in present
simple sentences.

I have toast for breakfast every day.


We visit our grandparents twice a month.

Note that ‘on Saturday’ refers to one day. ‘On


Saturdays’ means ‘every Saturday’.

Common mistakes:
We every day go the park. X => We go to the park every
day.
Use:
1
Use adverbs and adverbial phrases
of time to talk about when you do
something.

Adverbs of time include:


2
today, tomorrow, tonight, yesterday,
tomorrow, nowadays
now, first of all, beforehand
soon, afterwards, later, next, then

Adverbs of
Adverbs of time usually go at
the beginning or the end of a
3
time:
sentence or clause.
Tomorrow, I’m going to the beach.
I’m going to the beach tomorrow.
It is more common to use then at
1 the beginning of a sentence

Then we arrived at the castle.

tIt is more common to use soon and


2 now at the end of a sentence.

We’re going on holiday soon.


I’m going home now.

Common Mistakes:

Adverbs of 3
Don’t use an adverb of time between
the subject and the object of a

time: sentence.
I went yesterday to the zoo. => I
went to the zoo yesterday. / Yesterday
I went to the zoo.
Adverbs of place

Use: Adverbs of place include: Form:


Use adverbs and adverbial phrases outside, inside, indoors, upstairs, 1) Adverbs of place usually go after a
of place to talk about where downstairs verb.
something happens. (over) here, (over) there She lives abroad. - Let’s go indoors.
abroad, overseas
2) Adverbs of place can also go after
the object of the sentence.
Rachel works in the office upstairs.
Your bag is on the table over there.

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