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FREQUENCY ADVERBS (ADVERBIOS DE FRECUENCIA).
1.- Cmo se pregunta con qu frecuencia se realiza alguna accin?.
2.- Cules son los adverbios de frecuencia ms habituales?
3.- Cul es su posicin en la oracin?
4.- Ejercicios y prctica

1.- Cmo se pregunta con qu frecuencia se realiza alguna accin?.
Los adverbios de frecuencia responden a la pregunta: How often? ( con qu frecuencia?)

2.- Cules son los adverbios de frecuencia ms habituales?
Los ms habituales en uso son:
Los simples:
Always ( siempre)
Often ( a menudo )
Usually ( habitualmente)
Sometimes ( a veces)
Rarely, Seldom, Hardly ever. ( apenas, casi nunca)
Los compuestos:
Every day, ( todos los das)
Once a week/year, ( una vez a la semana/ al ao)
Twice a month ( dos veces al mes)
Three times a day, ( tres veces al da)
From time to time / (every) once in a while ( de vez en cuando),
every other day,. ( un da s y otro no, cada dos das, en das alternos)
Once in a blue moon ( de Pascuas a Ramos)







Always, 100%
Often
Usually
Sometimes
Rarely, seldom

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Others:
Never 0/%

every day
Once a day
Twice a week
Three tines a month
Every other year
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3.- Cul es su posicin en la oracin?
Su posicin en la oracin es:
1.- Entre el sujeto y el verbo. He never listens to the news.
2.- En caso de haber auxiliar, el adverbio de frecuencia va despus del auxiliar.
I can hardly wait/ She is always happy/ I will never forget you
3.- Cuando se trata de adverbios compuestos, se coloca al final de la oracin.
Mariah visits her parents twice a week

4.- PRACTICE.- 1.- Rewrite the following sentences by placing the frequency adverb in
the right position ( reescribe la oracin colocando el adverbio de frecuencia en el lugar
que le corresponde).
a) You dont need help (always)
b) Mark gets angry with us (never)
c) We dont go out after 11 p.m (usually)
d) My old friends send me a Christmas card ( from time to time)
e) Doctors are giving bad news (often)
f) I have to work at the weekend ( every other month)
g) She is annoying (sometimes)

2.- Answer these questions about yourself.
a) How often do you take a shower?
b) How often do you go to church?
c) How often do you go on holidays?
d) How often do you eat out?
e) How often do you meet your friends?
f) How often buy the newspaper
g) How often do you drive your car?
h) How often do you go shopping?
i) How often are you sick?
j) How often do you do the housework?
k) How often do you check your mail?
l) How often do buy a lottery ticket?
m) How often do you have a drink with your friends?
n) How often do you ride a bike?
) How often do you read a book?