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Rule "Word order: Wrong position of adverb, e.g. 'Always I am happy. (I am always happy.)'"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: Word order: Wrong position of adverb, e.g. 'Always I am happy. (I am always happy.)'
Message: The adverb '\3' is usually put before the verb '\2'.
Category: Style (ID: STYLE)
Link: https://staff.washington.edu/marynell/grammar/AdverbPl.html
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I will love always you.
    Correction suggestion: always love
  • I go often to bed before midnight.
    Correction suggestion: often go
  • ... is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.
    Correction suggestion: often appears
  • AmE appears sometimes to use the BrE form.
    Correction suggestion: sometimes appears
  • Chances come rarely in any case.
    Correction suggestion: rarely come
  • in their capacity as market superintendents, they served sometimes as judges in mercantile affairs.
    Correction suggestion: sometimes served
  • The desire, or the need, did not come upon him often, and it came usually when he was feeling ill or depressed.
    Correction suggestion: usually came
  • Mr. Bush campaigned often here last year.
    Correction suggestion: often campaigned
  • Tom and Mary complain often that they never get to be together without the children.
    Correction suggestion: often complain
  • Do your sisters dream sometimes about the future?
    Correction suggestion: sometimes dream
  • Do you think often about the future?
    Correction suggestion: often think
  • Those people spoke hardly during the meeting.
    Correction suggestion: hardly spoke
  • I don't go always to the market on a Thursday.
    Correction suggestion: always go
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • I will always love you.
  • Didn't you promise never to tell a lie?
  • Mary decided never to see him any more.
  • He taught the Athenians to desire always to defeat their enemies
  • I had an old wire bird feeder that I used to fill often with a square slab of suet.
  • He knows hardly anything about it.
  • These come up often in the context of chat messages.
  • He has to sleep often or else.
  • Do Batches fail often enough that you can show me a failure during a Zoom call?
  • To eat often before bed is unhealthy.
  • The shock of impact of a shell against armour often prematurely detonated Lyddite in advance of fuze function ...
  • The featured titles change every week, so check back often for fresh savings...
  • It's not cool sometimes to translate it literally.
  • I would be glad to meet you for lunch/dinner sometimes during the next few weeks.
  • I used to jerk off often when I was a teenager.
  • The size of a litter averages three to five kittens, with the first litter usually smaller than subsequent litters.
  • In its own often clumsy looking way Enron's culture does allocate capital and people fairly effectively.
  • He enjoys wine sometimes, but mostly he drinks whisky.
  • The existence and nature of animal consciousness can never rigorously be known.
  • Its rates aren't the cheapest, and they aren't even always less than the incumbent.
  • I don't send these things out often, so please forgive the intrusion.
  • Fadil and Dania made love like never before.
  • Save and save often.......
  • You never look angry, even though I know sometimes you are.
  • He who reads often and walks often, sees much and knows much.
  • I would be indignant (whenever people spoke hardly of me).
  • It doesn't happen often enough these days.
  • The disambiguation error does not occur rarely enough for us to ignore it.
  • It gets real crowded sometimes, which causes them to close the gates.
  • ... in which God agrees never again to destroy the Earth.
  • Those who made the Third Reich's military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.
  • I swore I would be one of those people who said never and really meant it.
  • What users want often can vary considerably from what they are being offered by today's suppliers.
  • This unit did research on BW, conducted often fatal human experiments on prisoners, and produced biological weapons for combat use.
  • Under Stalin the Politburo did not meet often as a collective unit, but was still an important body – many of Stalin's closet protégés were members.
  • Fighter pilots have year-round flights, but gunship pilots do not fly often due to the yet unfulfilled modernization of the Mi-24 gunships.
  • If something comes from FERC (which should not happen often), you would just forward it to me.
  • This game has a hunger mechanic: if you don't eat often, your character will die.
  • The salutary image of an older person instructing the young evokes always in Kurosawa's films high moments of pathos.
  • To get in bed with a man who says never
ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER [8]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-12-12 22:33:09 +0100)