Adverbs

Another classification of adverbs:

• Satellite adverbs: they express what you feel and can be placed anywhere:

  • Hopefully I will be there.

• Desinence adverbs:

  • Adverbs that modify the person and the tense: they are at place where the 'not' should be:

    • I never ran away.

    • We both sing.

    • It has long constituted...

  • Restrictive adverbs like seldom, only or rarely: if they are placed at the beginning of the sentence, inversion has to be made:

    • Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.