Adverb position Match the adverb positions to the definitions and the example sentences front position after the verb He usually played better than this They’ll definitely go to the party mid position before the subject I’ve been waiting patiently end position between the subject and the verb (or immediately after be as main verb Finally we managed to contact her 2 Put the adverbs in the right place in the sentences We saw them playing tennis often / in the park They began to meet before long / every week Ron had visited the Taj Mahal never / before I disagreed with his suggestions totally / at the meeting The players met for the first time only / yesterday We play tennis with Liz and Adam on Sundays / always Put the words in the right order to make sentences always / at nine o'clock / out of the garage / in the morning / drives / his car / he he / to town / after breakfast / often / Mrs Hodges / takes a parking place / near the shops / they / find / rarely sometimes / in a garage / Mr Hodges / his car / parks fly / with my parents / to Florida / hardly ever / I / in winter late / came / last year / she / often / to school / in spring often / have / at about three o'clock / a cup of tea / they / at the hotel / in the afternoon meet / at the sports ground / they / after dinner / always / their friends enjoys / very much / swimming / in our pool / always / in the morning / she 10 hardly / last year / could / ski / he Tick () the correct sentences Correct the mistakes We together walked to the end of the garden So far in my new job I have mainly had to deal with complaints I just have bought a new car He speaks fluently five languages Jenny has been appointed recently Professor of Nursing I was totally unprepared for the news It was now time for me to make my speech He had been to London never before Susan became soon bored with the new toys 10 John frequently was away from home in his new job 11 They are at home these days hardly ever 12 I could never understand why he got so annoyed 13 We had already been given three presents 14 Although he’s 60, he still enjoys playing football 15 I have always liked very much dancing Sevillanas Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences Helen takes the bus to work usually I finished my thesis in April of last year finally He doesn’t know my name still We have a greater understanding of the underlying problem now Japanese political scientists have claimed that most TV news is unbiased recently I forgot when the appointment was completely It seems we will never understand the implications of the accident fully It became clear that the results were not what they expected soon The evidence has been presented in this way seldom 10 A list of candidates had been submitted already Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences When he died, his political enemies agreed that he was a good man even I didn’t expect her to anything, but when I came down Ella had tidied up and made tea even 30,000 cases of measles were reported during September alone He asked for volunteers, but Alice put up her hand only The printer couldn’t print fifteen pages a minute even The tickets cost more than I could afford I certainly wouldn’t be able to pay for the hotel as well alone Please take my comments as guidelines just / only We’ve just realised that it was their tenth anniversary only The solution was heated to 100ºC then 10 He goes on to discuss the economic crisis in detail then ... football 15 I have always liked very much dancing Sevillanas Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences Helen takes the bus to work usually I finished my thesis... has been presented in this way seldom 10 A list of candidates had been submitted already Put the adverb in the right place in the sentences When he died, his political enemies agreed that he was