🔆 Task 10 – vocabulary (adverbs of frequency)

Here are the commonly used adverbs:

 always
 frequently
 hardly ever
 least often
 never
 normally
 occasionally
 often
 rarely
 regularly
 seldom
 sometimes
 usually
Position

Adverbs of frequency go before the verb, but after the verb be.

In negative sentences the adverb of frequency goes after don’t/doesn’t:

 We don’t often go to bed late.

 He doesn’t always agree with me.

In questions, adverbs of frequency go after the subject.

 Is he always late?
 Do they often go to the library?

Never/hardly ever
The adverbs never and hardly ever (=almost never) have a negative meaning, but they are
used with a positive verb:
 He is never late. (NOT He isn’t never late.)
 They hardly ever go to the library. (NOT They don’t hardly ever go to the library.)

Expressions of frequency

There are other expressions that we use to talk about frequency: once a day, twice a week,
three times a month, every day, etc. These expressions are longer (2 words or more) and
they go at the end of the sentence.

 I brush my teeth three times a day.

 I see her every day.
Complete the text with the phrases
he sometimes goes – is sometimes a lot – sometimes have – are often – always carve –
usually – getting – rarely rains – usually stormy – usually wakes up
At our house, we have a great urban garden. My husband ___________ at 7 am every day.
___________ for a run, but he usually waters the garden. He never asks us to help him that
early because we are ___________ ready for school. Our kids are seldom late for school and
we ___________ there pretty early.

Sometimes it rains in the afternoon. In the summer, it is ___________ between 2 pm and 4

pm in the afternoon. It ___________ in the wintertime, so my husband or our children will
have to water the garden then. In the autumn, we usually have lots of big pumpkins that we
___________ to get the seeds for roasting. In the spring, we ___________ cucumbers that
we pickle in jars. In early summer, we often have beautiful red strawberries that we pick and
turn into jam. It ___________ of hard work, but we don't have to make as many trips to the
grocery shop.

🔆 Task 10 – vocabulary (adverbs of frequency)

Order the following sentences, which contain adverbs of frequency.

1. Which sentence is correct?
a.Our teacher is often late.
b.Our teacher often is late.
c.Is often our teacher late?
d.Often our teacher is late.

2. Which sentence is correct?

a.Never we eat fast food.
b.We eat never fast food.
c.We eat fast food never.
d.We never eat fast food.

3. Which sentence is correct?

a.My father doesn't hardly ever watch football on TV.
b.My father watches hardly ever football on TV.
c.My father watches football on TV hardly ever.
d.My father hardly ever watches football on TV.

4. Which sentence is correct?

a.Do often you go to the cinema?
b.Do you often go to the cinema?
c.Do you go often to the cinema?
d.Do you go to the cinema often?

5. Which sentence is correct?

a.He usually doesn't go to bed late.
b.He doesn't go to bed late usually.
c.He doesn't usually go to bed late.
d.Does he go usually late to bed?

6. Which sentence is correct?

a.I every week have piano lessons.
b.I have every week piano lessons.
c.I have piano lessons every week.
d.I every week have piano lessons.

7. Which sentence is correct?

a.They always are very tired after the match.
b.They are always very tired after the match.
c.They are very tired after the match always.
d.Always they are very tired after the match.

8. Which sentence is correct?

a.We always have breakfast at home.
b.Always we have breakfast at home.
c.We have always breakfast at home.
d.We have breakfast at home always.

9. Which sentence is correct?

a.She doesn't wear jeans often.
b.She often doesn't wear jeans.
c.Often she doesn't wear jeans.
d.She doesn't often wear jeans.

10.Which sentence is correct?

a.Are you sometimes tired at the end of the class?
b.Are sometimes you tired at the end of the class?
c.Are you tired sometimes at the end of the class?
d.You are sometimes tired at the end of the class?

🔆 Task 10 – vocabulary (adverbs of frequency)

Choose the correct options to complete the sentences.
1. Tom _____ to the radio.
a.never listens
b.doesn't never listen
c.never doesn't listen
2. _____ in class on time?
a.Is always your teacher
b.Is your teacher always
c.Always is your teacher
3. He _____ his homework.
a.hardly ever doesn't do
b.doesn't hardly ever do
c.hardly ever does
4. He _____ to class.
a.doesn't always go
b.always doesn't go
c.doesn't go always
5. Alice and Tom _____.
a.cook every day dinner
b.every day cook diner
c.cook dinner every day
6. She _____ during dinner.
a.has hardly ever wine
b.hardly ever has wine
c.has wine hardly ever
7. What time _____ at the weekend?
a.do you usually get up
b.usually do you get up
c.usually you get up
8. We _____ our mistakes.
a.don't often admit
b.often don't admit
c.don't admit often
9. Mark _____.
a.always is busy
b.is busy always
c.is always busy
10.My brother _____.
a.reads comics sometimes
b.sometimes reads comics
c.reads sometimes comics
🔆 Task 10 – vocabulary (adverbs of frequency)

Rewrite the sentences using the adverbs of frequency or the expressions of frequency in
the correct position.
1. She has a shower in the morning. (always) ⇒ She ____________.
2. Where do you go running? (usually) ⇒ Where ____________?
3. She is full of energy. (always) ⇒ She ____________.
4. My parents approve of my friends. (hardly ever) ⇒ My parents ____________.
5. I listen to the radio. (every night) ⇒ I ____________.
6. He is strict with his students. (sometimes) ⇒ He ____________.
7. I don't ask for help when I need it. (usually) ⇒ I ____________ when I need it.
8. He is late for school. (never) ⇒ He ____________.
9. You make mistakes. (often) ⇒ You ____________.
10.I meditate. (usually/twice a day) ⇒ I ____________.