Welcome guy! Congrats to you on your discovery of Lingual Command and successful sourcing of this peak of adverb lesson which will, no doubt, adequately improve your writing skills and style. Order of adverb may be tricky but once you are able to follow the rules disbursed from here, I promise you're going to be one of the best at it.
To begin with, let me remind you of the rough and ready rules you learned from adverb order 1. You've learned that adverb should be at the end of a sentence except in the case of a special or frequency adverb. And that the order should be in the form of Manner(1), Place(2) and Time(3) as in the following example: He talked (sensibly-M) at (the conference-P) (this morning-T).
In contrast, you must've known as well, that place adverb comes immediately after any verb of movement, devoid of the first rule. So if you have, in a sentence that has movement verb, manner adverb, place adverb and time adverb, it's recommended to allow the place adverb come immediately after the movement verb before trying to circumspect the conventional rule, but what position will the manner adverb be? You'll find an answer to that as this lesson progresses. The adverb of place coming immediately after a movement verb is visible in the following example: I saw my friend off (at the station-P) (this morning-T). As you can see, the place adverb comes immediately after see off which is a movement verb meaning to walk with someone a little in order to say goodbye.
Also, I'd rather you knew that time adverb can be either at the very beginning of a sentence or its proper position but never in the middle, and that this happens especially when there are other adverbs in the expression. This is slightly emphatic. See these: yesterday, he strangled a cat roughly. He strangled a cat roughly yesterday.
Now, gliding to the main business, adverb order 2, we're concerned, here, with the behaviour of some frequency/special adverbs. These frequency adverbs are mostly called pre-verb adverbs; they usually occur before the principal verb in a sentence. Examples:
- I seldom visit that charlatan.
- "Verily, I say unto you..." Bible.
- I often had to see him.
- I had often seen him.
As you can see that instead of the conventional after-verb position of adverbs, these special adverbs, such as: seldom, verily and often occur before the verbs in the sentences. Seldom, in example 1, is a frequency adverb; it precedes visit. Verily is a special adverb and it occurs at the very beginning. Often precedes had in example 3. And in the last sentence, there are two verbs: had and seen but the special/frequency adverb, often, precedes the principal verb, see. This verb is so-called because it shows the major action in the sentence. Therefore, in a group of verbs, the principal verb is usually the major action that passes the main message. Try and deduce the difference between the meaning of example 3 and that of example 4 on your own. You may seek the help of a teacher for clarification.
Flashing back to paragraph 3, can you remember the question about what will happen to the manner adverb in a sentence that has a movement verb and a place adverb? If the place adverb has to come immediately after the movement adverb, what position will the manner adverb be in? Now, the answer is that the manner adverb will behave like one of these frequency/special adverbs and come before that verb. Lemme use the previous example in the 3rd paragraph for the analysis.
I saw my off at the station this morning. Is that the example? Yes! Assuming there's a manner adverb like quickly in the sentence, where will it be? The structure will simply be like this:
I quickly saw my friend off at the station this morning. Don't write: I saw my friend off at the station quickly this morning unless in an emphasising structure like: I saw my friend off at the station, quickly well, this morning.
You mayn't read this lesson once; you may even have to go back and take the adverb lessons right from the first one; what matters is your mastering of it. In this final lesson, you must have seen that frequency adverbs and some others are the so-called special adverbs; therefore, they usually occur before the (principal) verbs in sentences. Adverb and adverb order is a complete work with the lessons you'd been taking on this platform.