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05 English

Text sample:

I remember when I was young, I was just a toddler who was playing with my barbies all day.
Sometimes I played with my brother’s action-men. The dolls took the role of the teacher and the
action-men were their students. When I was growing up I didn’t like to play with dolls anymore, I
preferred to play the sims on the computer. I I had been playing that computer game for a long
time, because I had to design and build my home and I liked that. In that moment I realised that I
wanted to be an interior designer.

Sentence structures

Positive Sentences

subject verb(s9 indirect object direct object place time

I will tell you the story at school tomorrow.

Exercise: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises?03

Negative sentence

The word order in negative sentences is the same as in af rmative sentences. Note,
however, that in negative sentences we usually need an auxiliary verb: don’t/didn’t/won’t

subject verbs indirect object direct object place time

I will not tell you the story at school tomorrow.

Exercise: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-progressive/exercises?05

Position of Time Expression

(e.g.: recently, now, then, yesterday

Adverbs of time are usually put at the end of the sentence

subject verb(s) indirect object direct object time

I will tell you the story tomorrow.

If you don't want to put emphasis on the time, you can also put the adverb of time at the
beginning of the sentence
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 time subject verb(s) indirect object direct object

Tomorrow I will tell you the story.

Note that some time expressions are adverbs of frequency (always, never, usually

usw.). These are usually put before the main verb (except for 'be' as a main verb). (see
also Position of Adverbs

subject auxiliary/be adverb main verb object, place or time

I often go swimming in the evenings.
He doesn't always play tennis.
We are usually here in summer.
I have never been abroad.

Exercises: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/exercises?05

Position of adverbs

Adverb of Manne
(e.g.: slowly, carefully, awfully

These adverbs are put behind the direct object (or behind the verb if there's no direct
object)

subject verb(s) direct object adverb

He drove the car carefully.
He drove carefully.

Exercise on adverbs of manner

Adverbs of Plac
(e.g.: here, there, behind, above

Like adverbs of manner, these adverbs are put behind the direct object or the verb

subject verb(s) direct object adverb

I didn't see him here.
He stayed behind.

Exercise on adverbs of place

Adverbs of Tim
(e.g.: recently, now, then, yesterday
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Adverbs of time are usually put at the end of the sentence

subject verb(s) indirect object direct object time

I will tell you the story tomorrow.

If you don't want to put emphasis on the time, you can also put the adverb of time at the
beginning of the sentence

time subject verb(s) indirect object direct object

Tomorrow I will tell you the story.

Exercise on adverbs of time

Adverbs of Frequenc
(e.g.: always, never, seldom, usually

Adverbs of frequency are put directly before the main verb. If 'be' is the main verb and
there is no auxiliary verb, adverbs of frequency are put behind 'be'. Is there an auxiliary
verb, however, adverbs of frequency are put before 'be'

subject auxiliary/be adverb main verb object, place or time

I often go swimming in the evenings.
He doesn't always play tennis.
We are usually here in summer.
I have never been abroad.

Exercise on adverbs of frequency

Exercise on adverbs (mix)

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In questions, the word order subject-verbs-object is the same as in af rmative sentences.

The only thing that’s different is that you usually have to put the auxiliary verb (or the main
verb “be”) before the subject. Interrogatives are put at the beginning of the sentences

interrogat auxiliary subje other indirect direct

place time
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What would you like to tell me
Did you have a party in your yesterda
at y?
When were you here?

Exercise on word order in questions 1

You don’t use an auxiliary verb if you ask for the subject. In this case the interrogative
simply takes the place of the subject

interrogative verb(s) object

Who asked you?

Exercise on word order in questions 2

ONLY (or JUST) apply to the words that come AFTER them.

1. I kissed ONLY Jane.

2. I ONLY kissed Jane.
3. ONLY I kissed Jane.

1: I kissed ONLY Jane, I did not kiss Debby, or Susan, or Amy.

2: I ONLY kissed Jane, I did not kick Jane, or hit Jane, or see Jane.
3: ONLY I kissed Jane, Tom did not kiss Jane, David did not kiss Jane, I was
the single boy who kissed Jane.

Experiment with your own sentences.

First, say a sentence.

Then, put ONLY in front of any word or phrase in the sentence, and see how it
changes the meaning.

The boy buys dogs.

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The boy buys ONLY dogs. He does not buy cats, or birds, or elephants.

The boy ONLY buys dogs. He does not sell dogs, or rent dogs.

ONLY the boy buys dogs. The girl does not buy dogs, the man does not buy
dogs.

The girl runs in the street after dark.

The girl runs in the street ONLY after dark, she does not run in the
street before dark, or during the day.

The girl runs ONLY in the street after dark, she does not run in the park after
dark, or in the house after dark.

The girl ONLY runs in the street after dark, she does not walk in the street
after dark, or stand in the street after dark.

ONLY the girl runs in the street after dark, no one else, ONLY the girl, runs in
the street after dark.