hello everyone how are you today this is
Marc I'm doing just great thanks for
asking
she always stays up late at the weekend
Ashley was sometimes late for class
last month I don't usually watch reality
shows on TV have my students ever got
tired of my lessons ? rarely would he speak
his own language in class in this lesson
we're going to talk about adverbs of
frequency so stay tuned let me start first
with the meaning of adverbs what are they they
are words or phrases that modify the
meaning of verbs adjectives or even
adverbs there can be time adverbs of
time adverbs of place adverbs of
degree and adverbs of manner in this
lesson I said that we're going to talk
about adverbs of time or adverbs of
frequency they usually answer the
question how often so for example how
often do you go to school ? I always go to
school
and this always would be the adverb of
frequency so they are pleased before the
main verb but there are exceptions
I'm going to get to that in a minute so
I listed some of them with a degree or
a percentage just to show you how to
use them a hundred percent you would use
always so every day for example 24-7
which means always, ever in
questions for example
and constantly then we have ninety
percent and this is usually usually but
not always usually, regularly and so on
there are many others but i'm just going
to list the most important ones
eighty percent generally, normally
70-percent often or often there are two
pronunciations you can say often or
ofTen if your choice frequently then we
have fifty percent here we skipped sixty
percent and we got the 50-percent
sometimes, periodically then we have
thirty percent we skipped forty thirty
percent occasionally, occasionally
10 percent seldom and then we have
5 percent which is rarely, hardly ever, almost never, and
normally we have zero percent which is
never. I'm going to erase this, and I'm going
to show you the examples so we're back
we the adverbs of frequency let me tell
you that I have a lesson on adverbs and you
can click here if you want to watch
that lesson but going back to adverbs of
frequency, we use adverbs of frequency
usually but not always with the present
simple and I gave you an example the first
example is with the present simple she
always stays up late at the weekend
now I also underlined at the weekend
because at the weekend is a time
expression and we place the time
expression at the weekend at the end of
the sentence or at the beginning it's the same thing
at the weekend she always stays up late
is the same but most importantly where
is the adverb of frequency placed? yes
It's before the main verb
to stay so she always stays a hundred
percent always stays up late at the
weekend and it's placed before the main
verb there are exceptions
now let's take a look at the first
exception I have for you Ashley was
sometimes late for class last month and
in this case we have the verb to be
the verb to be is almost always an
exception and where is the adverb of
frequency placed ?
yes It's after right not before it's after
the verb to be so Ashley was sometimes
okay placed right after the verb to be
late for class last month last month
again here is an expression and he is
placed at the end of the sentence or could
be at the beginning I could've said last
month Ashley was sometimes late for
class
it's the same thing now let's take a
look at the third example with negative
sentence I don't usually watch reality
shows on TV here the adverb of
frequency is always placed before the
main verb watch even though I have a
negative sentence right ? I don't
that's negative in the present simple
simple present tense so you can see
usually is placed just before the main
verb now let's take a look at the
question with the
perfect simple have my students ever
got tired of my lessons ? in this case
we have ever and I said before we use ever
with questions and obviously where is it
placed ? yes right before the main verb
to get tired now if you want to watch a
lesson on GET
you may click here going back to adverbs
of frequency we said
that get tired is the main verb and we
place the adverb of frequency before it
now if we wanted to
answer to that question and we wanted to
say no so we say no and then we use they
have we don't use again not because we
need an adverb and the adverb that I
want to use here is never so is
zero-percent is the opposite of always
they have never got tired and in
this case like I said before get tired
is the main verb now let's take a look
at the last example and this may sound a
little bit weird for you because it's a
formal in formal contexts and in a formal sentence
we use the adverb of frequency before
anything else so we want to stress the
fact that for example in this case
rarely rarely adverb of frequency would he
speak his own foreign language in class now
would would be the auxiliary then we
have the subject he and then the verb speak
his own language in class you will see
this in a very formal concept so pay
close attention
adverb of frequency before and then we
use the auxiliary plus the subject plus
the main verb now let's recap in this
lesson we took a look at adverbs of frequency such as
always often usually never ever etc they
are usually placed before the main verb
but after the verb to be they can be
placed at the beginning of a sentence to
make the meaning stronger
these are used in formal contexts
I hope you enjoyed the lesson if you have
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