Re: Which is correct "Needed Urgently" or "Urgently Needed"?"
Hello dear all,
I would like to know the correct form to write this form of "Needed Urgently". I want to say "Editor's action needed urgently". Is this way right or should I write it the other way "Editor's action urgently needed".
I would appreciate an explanation why we used the correct form.
Thanks in advance.
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Doudz,
(1) The moderator has already given you an excellent answer.
(2) May I add my comments?
(3) The placement of adverbs is a very interesting matter.
(4) Perhaps you might be interested in the opinion of a book
entitled
Making Sense of Grammar by Mr. John Clark Jordan,
a college professor.
(a) Professor Clark believes that if you consider the adverb to be
essential to the meaning of your sentence, then you should put
it after the verb.
(i) In saying your sentence out loud, if you emphasize (a strong
pronunciation)
urgently, then perhaps it might be better to write:
An editor's action is needed
urgently.
(ii) Professor Clark explains that in that position, the adverb is
more of a complement ( = completes the full meaning of the thought
that you wish to express in writing). If you place the adverb, in
any other position, Professor Clark feels, it is only a modifier.
(iii) Professor Clark gives these examples:
Slowly, the man spoke.
The man slowly spoke.
The man spoke slowly.
In Professor Clark's opinion,
slowly in the first two sentences
are modifiers. In the last sentence, he feels that
slowly is a complement
because it
"express[es]
something more than merely the fact of
his speaking."
