Hello Folks,
What exactly happened to Gina?
What happened to Gina, exactly?
Where do adverbs like exactly sound more natural - in the end or mid sentence?
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Google "position of adverbs in English". org/grammar/british-grammar/adverbs-and-adverb-phrases-position [ replace the initial dots with www]
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Google "position of adverbs in English".
You might want to start with the following site:
.....dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adverbs-and-adverb-phrases-position
[ replace the initial dots with www]
anonymousWhere do adverbs like exactly sound more natural - in the end or mid sentence?
In that sentence 'exactly' applies to 'what' (or any other question word), so I always use the word order "What exactly" at the beginning of a question like that. The following are typical and commonly used:
Where exactly did you put it?
When exactly