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He drove off angrily.
You speak English well.
She read the letter slowly.

She angrily tore up the letter.
| slowly began to feel better again.

initial position

Suddenly | had an idea.
In passive clauses, adverbs of manner often go before the past
participle. This is very common with adverbs that say how well
something is done (for example well, badly).
adverb + past participle
Everything has been carefully checked.
| thought it was very well written.
The conference was badly organized.

Adverbs of place
These adverbs say where something happens.
Examples: upstairs, around, here, to bed, in London, out of the window
Position: at the end of a clause. Initial position also possible,
especially in literary writing.
The children are playing upstairs.
Come and sit here.
Don't throw orange peel out of the window.
She's sitting at the end of the garden.
At the end of the garden there was a very tall tree.
Adverbs of direction (movement) come before adverbs of position.
The children are running around upstairs.
Here and there often begin clauses. Note the word order.
Here/There + verb + subject |
Here comes your bus. (NOT Here-yeurbus- comes.)
There's Alice.
Pronoun subjects come directly after here and there.
Here it comes (NOT Here-eomes+t.)
There she is. (NOT Fhere+s-she.)
Adverbs of time

These adverbs say when something happens.
Examples: today, afterwards, in June, last year. daily, weekly, every
year, finally, before, eventually, already, soon, still, last