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Hello Yigitcan,
The position of adverbs in sentences in English is quite flexible. Generally, the adverb comes before the verb rather than after. Where there is an auxiliary verb, the adverb comes before the main verb (after the auxiliary verb.
For your examples, all of these are correct options:
With other examples there may be more options. The adverb can come at the start of the sentence, for example, especially if it is an adverb of time (yesterday, earlier etc).
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Timmy,
I think the main difference is that in school is more common in US English, while at school is preferred in most contexts in UK English.
In terms of meaning/use, I think in UK English in school tends to mean that a person attends school (i.e. is a pupil), while at school tends to mean that the person is physically there:
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Nagie23
Yes, though please note that it's 'sort of' (or 'kind of'), not 'short of'.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Bharati,
Yes, all of those sentences are fine, though very prescriptive grammarians might insist on Fewer than 40 rather than less than 40 to avoid using less with a countable noun. To be honest, though, it is very common to use less in this way, especially in modern English.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Bharati,
Phrases like these, and similar ones such as never mind and still less, are conjunctions.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Bharati,
Yes, I would say so. If you look the phrases up in a good dictionary then you'll see that they are classified as conjunctions:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/still%20less
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/never%20mind
There are so many conjunctions in English when phrases are included that it's well nigh impossible to list them all. Most grammar books for learners simplify the list of coordinating conjunctions to the most common and useful seven, using the acronym FANBOYS. There are, however, many more.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello tareq
'by horses' is the agent of the passive verb 'used to be drawn'. Another way of saying this is 'In the past, horses drew carriages.'
I'm afraid that none of three options you list explains the meaning of 'by horses'.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Alice,
The normal word order here is the first one. We usually say where to before who with. It's not grammatically wrong to say it in a different order, but it is not the normal way and not how we would phrase it.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello inaki
It's true that adverbs of frequency tend to come before the main verb (in this case, 'been'), but I'm afraid that adverbs can go in many different positions. You can read more about this on the Where adverbials go in a sentence page in this section, as well as this Cambridge Dictionary page.
Hope this helps.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Imran 26
I wouldn't say it that way, because it sounds as if, for example, nouns are adverbials by themselves, which is not true. An adverbial can include a noun (e.g. in a prepositional phrase), but that's a different story.
I'm not sure if I've answered your question. Please feel free to ask again if not.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Imran 26,
An adverb is a kind of word. An adverbial is any word, phrase or clause which functions as an adverb in the sentence. Thus, adverbial is a bigger category which contains adverbs as well as other things.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Nehashri
It sounds to me as if you do understand this, but I'll explain it briefly in case that helps.
An adverb is a single word (e.g. 'quickly'). An adverb phrase can be simply an adverb (e.g. 'quickly') or an adverb plus other words (e.g. 'very quickly', which is two adverbs, the main one being 'quickly').
An adverbial phrase functions as an adverb, but does not necessarily contain an adverb. Prepositional phrases (e.g. 'in two years'), for example, often function as adverbs: 'I will graduate in two years'. Note that there is no adverb in this adverbial phrase.
In this grammar, adverbs and adverb phrases are also referred to as 'adverbials' -- the term 'adverbial' is used for any word or phrase that has an adverbial function in a sentence.
Hope that clears it up for you.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Lavern,
We actually have a page devoted to the topic of quantifiers. I think you'll find it useful. It also has some exercises so you can test yourself on the topic. You can find the page here:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/quantifiers
We can't give detailed general explanations of language items in the comments sections of the pages but if you have any specific questions we'll be happy to answer them. Including an example to illustrate your question is helpful too.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello DanyalParacha
What do you need help with?
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello quds001
Well done, that's a great (and correct) summary!
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello agie,
That is fine, yes.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello agie,
You can say 'help you learn' or 'help you to learn'. There is no difference in meaning.
'
Help you learning' is not correct. You could say 'help you with your learning'.We wouldn't say 'the top part of the story'. I'm not sure what you mean, but perhaps we would say 'the first part of the story' or 'the first paragraph of the story', or 'the beginning of the story'.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Prap
It can be both. A noun phrase can be used adverbially -- this is another way of saying that the noun phrase functions as an adverb in a sentence (in this case, for example, it can tell you more about the frequency of an action) -- and in that sense it is also an adverbial phrase.
I hope that helps you make sense of it.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Rafaela1
Strictly speaking, 'well' is the correct form here, but people often use 'good' instead of 'well' in informal speech in a sentence like this.
All the best
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Hello Bonne,
I'm not sure what you mean by 'analyse' here. Is this a sentence which you've written and would like to know if it is correct, or a sentence you have found somewhere and which you don't understand?
If the sentence is yours, then we would need to know what you want to say in order to tell you if the sentence is OK or not. If the sentence is from somewhere else, then we would need to know the context before we comment on it.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team