He carefully explained/explained carefully the instructions to everyone.

[Zouzourlamifax]

Hi, I have a question for you. Yesterday I worked about adverbs placement in the sentence and I haven’t understood something.

ChatGPT said to me : “ In English, when you use an adverb of manner, the adverb typically comes after the verb in simple tenses (like present, past, future).

One of the exercice’s sentence was ( I have to place correctly the adverb in the sentence) : He (carefully) explained the instructions to everyone. It was correct, but for me it was “He explained carefully the instructions to everyone”. Why that ? Because carefully is an adverb of manner, and the tense is past simple.

Same misunderstood about these two sentences :

He speaks French fluently.
The teacher clearly explained the lesson.

The first sentence : it’s after the verb
The second sentence : it’s before the verb.
It’s all both adverbs of manners right ?
Why it has different placement in the sentence ?

I have difficulty to understand the link between the placement of an adverb of manner and an adverb that modify the verb.

Anyone could help me please ?

(Also in order to improve my writing English, are there any faults in my post ?)

Thank you

 

[Tarheel]

Hi, I have a question for you. Yesterday I worked about adverbs placement in the sentence and I haven’t understood something.

ChatGPT said to me : “ In English, when you use an adverb of manner, the adverb typically comes after the verb in simple tenses (like present, past, future).

One of the exercice’s sentence was ( I have to place correctly the adverb in the sentence) : He (carefully) explained the instructions to everyone. It was correct, but for me it was “He explained carefully the instructions to everyone”. Why that ? Because carefully is an adverb of manner, and the tense is past simple.

Same misunderstood about these two sentences :

He speaks French fluently.
The teacher clearly explained the lesson.

The first sentence : it’s after the verb
The second sentence : it’s before the verb.
It’s all both adverbs of manners right ?
Why it has different placement in the sentence ?

I have difficulty to understand the link between the placement of an adverb of manner and an adverb that modify the verb.

Anyone could help me please ?

(Also in order to improve my writing English, are there any faults in my post ?)

[............]

Often it's possible to have more than one possible position for the adverb. For example, you could say a person speaks French fluently or that they fluently speak French. You could say somebody carefully explained something or that they explained it carefully.

 

[jutfrank]

He (carefully) explained the instructions to everyone. It was correct, but for me it was “He explained carefully the instructions to everyone”. Why that ?

The rule about placement is that the adverb of manner is directly proximate to the verb phrase, which includes any direct object.

explained the instructions

Here, explained is the verb and the instructions is the direct object. You can't place an adverb between verb and object. It has to go either before or after the entire verb phrase.

 

[jutfrank]

Often it's possible to have more than one possible position for the adverb. For example, you could say a person speaks French fluently or that they fluently speak French. You could say somebody carefully explained something or that they explained it carefully.

Right, but you can't say that somebody explained carefully it, which is what the OP is asking about.

 

[Zouzourlamifax]

Often it's possible to have more than one possible position for the adverb. For example, you could say a person speaks French fluently or that they fluently speak French. You could say somebody carefully explained something or that they explained it carefully.

Thank you for your help Tarheel !

Often it's possible to have more than one possible position for the adverb. For example, you could say a person speaks French fluently or that they fluently speak French. You could say somebody carefully explained something or that they explained it carefully.

 

[Zouzourlamifax]

Right, but you can't say that somebody explained carefully it, which is what the OP is asking about.

Thank you so much jutfrank, I didn’t know this rule. It’s easier for me now

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi. I have a question for you. Yesterday, I worked about on adverbs adverb placement in the sentences and I haven’t understood there's something I don't understand.

ChatGPT said to me : says “In English, when you use an adverb of manner, the adverb typically comes after the verb in simple tenses (like present, past, future)."

One of the sentences in the exercise, ’s sentence was ( in which I have to correctly place correctly the adverb in the sentence, was "He (carefully) explained the instructions to everyone." It was That's correct, but for me it was I thought it should be “He explained carefully the instructions to everyone”. Why? that ? Because "carefully" is an adverb of manner, and the tense is past simple.

Same misunderstood about For the same reason, I don't understand these two sentences:

1. He speaks French fluently.
2. The teacher clearly explained the lesson.

In the first sentence, : it’s the adverb is after the verb.
In the second sentence, it’s before the verb.
It’s all They're both adverbs of manners manner, right?
Why it has different placement are the adverbs in different positions in the those sentences?

I have difficulty to understand understanding the link between the placement of an adverb of manner and an adverb that modify modifies the verb.

Can anyone could help me please?

(Also, in order to help me improve my writing written English, are there please correct any faults in my post.)

Thank you.

As requested, I have made corrections to your text above. Many of your errors were simple ones that we might expect from a learner. However, please pay particular attention to the spacing around punctuation. I suspect there are different rules in French. Here's a list of the most important rules about punctuation and spacing in written English:

- End every sentence with one appropriate punctuation mark.
- Do not put a space before a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Always put a space after a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Don't put a space after opening quotation marks.
- Don't put a space before closing quotation marks.
- Don't put a space after an opening bracket.
- Don't put a space before a closing bracket.
- Don't put a space before a colon or semi-colon.
- Always put a space after a colon or semi-colon.
- An emoji is never a replacement for a closing punctuation mark.

 

[Tarheel]

Right, but you can't say that somebody explained carefully it, which is what the OP is asking about.

That's right! I guess I didn't realize that. No, you can't say "carefully it".

 

[Zouzourlamifax]

As requested, I have made corrections to your text above. Many of your errors were simple ones that we might expect from a learner. However, please pay particular attention to the spacing around punctuation. I suspect there are different rules in French. Here's a list of the most important rules about punctuation and spacing in written English:

- End every sentence with one appropriate punctuation mark.
- Do not put a space before a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Always put a space after a full stop, comma, question mark or exclamation mark.
- Don't put a space after opening quotation marks.
- Don't put a space before closing quotation marks.
- Don't put a space after an opening bracket.
- Don't put a space before a closing bracket.
- Don't put a space before a colon or semi-colon.
- Always put a space after a colon or semi-colon.
- An emoji is never a replacement for a closing punctuation mark.

Thank you so much for your complete help @emsr2d2

 

[emsr2d2]

I told you this:

- An emoji is never a replacement for a closing punctuation mark.

And then you did this:

Thank you so much for your complete help emsr2d2

Please ensure you take note of our advice. This is what you should have written:

Thank you so much for your help, emsr2d2.

(Note that we don't say "complete help".)

 

[Zouzourlamifax]

I told you this:

And then you did this:


Please ensure you take note of our advice. This is what you should have written:

Thank you so much for your help, emsr2d2.

(Note that we don't say "complete help".)

Thank you again for your help, I’m working on it.

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you again for your help. I’m working on it.

Have a look at online information about comma splices. That's what you had above.