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Sunday, July 19, 2020
Adverbs and Prepositions
Adverbs are
words or groups of words which tell time,
place, frequency or manner.
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I ate my lunch yesterday.
I ate at that restaurant last week. |
She went there.
She went downtown. |
Prepositions are usually followed by objects in prepositional
phrases. They
can also be used to indicate time, place, frequency, duration, reason, manner,
or to show contrast.
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I ate my lunch at noon.
I ate in the cafeteria. |
She went to the store.
She walked into the house. |
*Do not use adverbs as objects of prepositions.
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Incorrect:
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Correct:
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I went to somewhere.
I was busy at last night. John works in downtown. She came to home on yesterday. |
I went somewhere.
I was busy last night. John works downtown. She came home yesterday. |
Be careful with words such as home,
downtown, today, next/last week, etc.
which are sometimes used as adverbs and sometimes used as nouns.
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As adverbs
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As nouns
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I will go back tomorrow.
She went home last night. Next week I will travel to Iowa. |
Tomorrow is another day.
They built a home in Oregon. Next week is my vacation. |
