Word order 2ag les 1

• Engels grammar word order
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Kies de juiste volgorde

1. onderwerp, werkwoord(en) lijdend voorwerp, plaats, tijd
2. onderwerp, lijdend voorwerp, werkwoord(en), tijd, plaats
3. onderwerp, werkwoord(en), plaats, tijd, lijdend voorwerp
4. onderwerp, werkwoord(en), tijd, plaats, lijdend voorwerp

Voorbeeld

Keith used to watch television in his room at bedtime.

onderwerp - werkwoord(en) - lvw - plaats - tijd

Kies de juiste volgorde

1. onderwerp, werkwoord(en) lijdend voorwerp, plaats, tijd
2. onderwerp, lijdend voorwerp, werkwoord(en), tijd, plaats
3. onderwerp, werkwoord(en), plaats, tijd, lijdend voorwerp
4. onderwerp, werkwoord(en), tijd, plaats, lijdend voorwerp

Quiz questions

Answers the following quiz questions.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Who swims every day in the canal?
2. Who swims in the canal every day?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. My sister got married last year.
2. Last year my sister got married.
3. Both are correct, no difference in meaning.
4. Both are correct, there is a difference in meaning.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Doesn't she go in the weekends out?
2. Doesn't she go out in the weekends?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. They often go out in the weekends.
2. They go often out in the weekends.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. We are hardly in a position to complain.
2. We hardly are in a position to complain.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. We definitely have succeeded in seeing past her shortcomings.
2. We have succeeded definitely in seeing past her shortcomings.
3. We have definitely succeeded in seeing past her shortcomings.
4. We have succeeded in seeing definitely past her shortcomings.

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Have ever you read a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien?
2. Have you read ever a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien?
3. Have you read a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien ever?
4. Have you ever read a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Did he completely tell the truth yesterday?
2. Did he tell completely the truth yesterday?
3. Did he tell the truth completely yesterday?
4. Did he tell the truth yesterday completely?

Choose the sentence with the correct word order.

1. Who gives never a straight answer?
2. Who gives a straight answer never?
3. Who never gives a straight answer?
4. Who gives a straight never answer?

Correct word order:
Billy / to his friend / five minutes ago / next door / went

1. Billy went to his friend five min. ago next door.
2. Billy went next door to his friend five min. ago.
3. Billy went five min. ago next door to his friend.
4. Billy went to his friend next door five min. ago.

Correct word order:
her / in town / yesterday / I / met

1. I met her in town yesterday.
2. I met her yesterday in town.
3. I yesterday met her in town.
4. I met yesterday her in town.

The only type of word that can go between the subject and the verb are adverbs of frequency

. Examples are: usually, often, never, seldom, always and occasionally.


She often visits her friends in Singapore. 

I usually get up at 7 am.

We sometimes watch action films.

Correct word order:
summer / we / here / are / in / usually

1. Usually we are here in summer.
2. We usually are here in summer.
3. We are usually in summer here.
4. We are usually here in summer.

Maak een zin met:
never + Japan

When the verb consists of three words, the frequency adverb goes after the first.

I have never been invited to their parties.
(NOT I have been never invited to their parties.)
(NOT I have been invited never to their parties.)

Make a sentence using these words (and more): been, have, punished, often, school