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Bbk_agp Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

About adverbs, I need reference!

Hi dear Friends;

I was teaching English, adverbs, and I said adverbs cannot come between "was" and "playing" in sentences like "I was playing football......., when suddenly an example come out of no where Emotion: smile.
The example said: I was just playing football...... How we can explain this? Does "just" play as an adverb rule? Since our lesson was about adverbs, it have to be an adverb Emotion: smile.

Sencond question is about the sentence below:
"Can you possibly give me a hand?" in this sentence, can "possibly" change its position? why?

Can you please introduce me a reference to read more about adverbs?

Sincerely
  

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Bbk_agp I was teaching English, adverbs, and I said adverbs cannot come between "was" and "playing" ... I don't know where you got that idea from. Many adverbs can go in that position: I was happily playing football when I broke my leg.

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  • Bbk_agp I was teaching English, adverbs, and I said adverbs cannot come between "was" and "playing" ...
  • I don't know where you got that idea from.
  • Many adverbs can go in that position: I was happily playing football when I broke my leg.
  • I was certainly playing football last Saturday.
  • I was always playing football when I was younger.
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Bbk_agpI was teaching English, adverbs, and I said adverbs cannot come between "was" and "playing" ...
I don't know where you got that idea from. Many adverbs can go in that position:

I was happily playing football when I broke my leg.
I was certainly playing football last Saturday.
I was always playing football when I was you
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Bbk_agp"Can you possibly give me a hand?" in this sentence, can "possibly" change its position?
In questions many adverbs are placed after the subject (you). You can read more about the position of frequency adverbs

CB
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Bbk_agpI was teaching English, adverbs, and I said adverbs cannot come between "was" and "playing" in sentences like "I was playing football......., when suddenly an example come out of no where
The only adverb "rule" that I learned was the error of the split infinitive (adverb coming between the particle to and the verb.). And as it turns out, it was a
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You can say: "Possibly can you give me a hand?". This is an extremely polite way of asking the question.
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