Hello students, welcome back to the English Danny Channel. I'm teacher Sarah.
Today we're going to take a look at adverbs of frequency.
Let's get started
Before we begin talking about adverbs of frequency
Let's go ahead and take a moment to review. What is an adverb an
Adverb is a word that's used to modify or describe or tell more about
verbs
Adjectives and even other adverbs, let's take a look at a couple examples. Here is a simple sentence I run
Here we see our verb is
run
Now we could add an adverb into this sentence to give us more information about our verb run
for example, I
slowly run as
You can see the adverb here tells us more about that verb run
Now, let's take a look at how an adverb can be used with an adjective
Here is a sentence. I'm happy
Here we see our adjective is happy
Now I'm going to add an adverb to give us more information about that adjectives
For example, I'm extremely happy
Here the adverb extremely gives us more information about that adjective happy
Okay. Now let's take a look at adverbs of frequency
What are they?
adverbs of frequency are used to talk about how
Often something happens and often are used in response to the question. How often
Adverbs of frequency are used often to talk about things like habits
Hobbies and regular occurrences some of the adverbs of frequency. We'll talk about today are always
normally usually
often
sometimes
rarely
seldom and never
now these are not all of the adverbs of frequency there are but we will use these eight as
Examples for how to use adverbs of frequency in different kinds of sentences. Let's take a look at what these words mean
Here if we look at the top of this chart we can see that always means
100% it is always true 100% of the time. For example, I
Always eat breakfast this means that every day always
100% of the time I eat breakfast I
Always eat breakfast now
Let's go down to our next word. Normally normally means something happens about 90 percent of the time for
Example I normally go to bed at 11 o'clock
This means that about 90 percent of the time I go to bed at 11 o'clock
But maybe 10 percent of the time I go to bed earlier or later, but I'm normally go to bed at 11 o'clock
Now, let's take a look at our next word usually
Usually is a very common adverb of frequency and means something happened about 80 percent of the time for
Example she usually watches TV before bed
This means that about 80 percent of the time. She watches TV before bed maybe 20 percent of the time
she does something else, but she usually
watches TV before bed
Okay. Now let's go down to our next adverb of frequency
often often means something happens about 70 percent of the time for
Example he calls me often. This means that about 70 percent of the time. He calls me
He calls me regularly. He calls me often
Okay. Now we're going to get down into adverbs of frequency that describe things that happen less often
For example, our next word is sometimes
Sometimes means something happens about 50% of the time
For example, I ride my bike sometimes
This means that I don't ride my bike a lot. But sometimes I do
I ride my bike. Sometimes the next word we're going to look at is the word seldom
Seldom means something happens about 25 percent of the time so not very often
For example, she seldom reads
This means that she does not read very much
She seldom reads next. Let's take a look at a word that's used to describe when things happen about
10% of the time net word is
Rarely, we can use rarely in a sentence like my friend is rarely late
this means that my friend is only late about
10% of the time they are not late often and finally, let's look at the adverb of frequency
Never-never means something happens zero percent of the time it does not happen. For example, I
never miss class
this means that zero percent of the time I miss class I
never miss class
Next let's look at some different ways that we can use adverbs of frequency in sentences
We'll talk about three main ways that they can be used and one that will expand on in a future video
First we can use adverbs of frequency in sentences that have B plus a verb
now if you remember the verb B includes words like am is
are was
and work
For example, I could have a sentence like my boss is happy
Now if I want to add an adverb of frequency, I could say my boss is often happy
That's another example. We can look at a sentence like I'm late for work
Here I could add an adverb of frequency and say something like I'm seldom late for work
Next we can see adverbs of frequency used with other verbs. So we'll see our adverb of frequency
plus another verb
For example, I could have a like we go to Scotland in August
Now if I want to add my adverb of frequency
I'll put it before that verb and say we usually go to Scotland in August as
Another example, I could look at a sentence like it gets very windy here here
Our verb is gets so we want to put our adverb of frequency before and we could say it sometimes gets very windy here
Third it is important to note that most adverbs of frequency
can be used at the beginning or the end of a clause or a sentence, for example, I could say
Sometimes I want to live somewhere else
Or I could put it at the end and it's also correct. I want to live somewhere else sometimes
Let's look at another example with the adverb usually
Usually I get up early
That is correct. I can also take the adverb usually and put it at the end of that sentence. I get up early usually
That's also correct
Now we cannot do this with every adverb of frequency
Some adverbs of frequency cannot come at the beginning and the end of sentences these include the adverbs rarely
Seldom and never though it's normally true that never cannot come at the beginning or end of a sentence
Always in never can be used at the beginning of imperative sentences. For example
always wear your seat belt or
Never forget it the last way that we can use adverbs of frequency is a way that will expand upon at another time
Here we could use an auxiliary verb and an adverb. For example, I have never seen a will
You can always stay with us or have you ever played American football?
But again, we'll touch on this specific use of adverbs of frequency at another time. Okay?
Now I want you to try to make your own sentence using adverbs of frequency. I will ask you a question
Think about it and try to answer it and pause the video to save the sentence out loud
Then hit play and we'll see what an example of a correct answer would be. Okay number one
How often do you read books?
Okay, did you come up with your answer we can answer this question using any adverb of frequency
For example, I sometimes read books or I read books often
Okay number two. How often do you listen to music?
again, we can answer this question using any adverb of frequency for
Example I rarely listen to music or I listen to music sometimes
Okay, number three our last question. How often do you study English?
Here again
We can just plug in our adverb of frequency
Before the verb and some of them at the beginning or end of a sentence. For example, I always study English or
Sometimes I study English
Okay students. That's it for today's lesson about adverbs of frequency
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