Adverbs are words or groups of words which tell time, place, frequency or manner. | |||||
I ate my lunch yesterday. | | She went there. | |||
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I ate at that restaurant last week. | | She went downtown. | |||
Prepositions are usually followed by objects in prepositional phrases. They can also be used to indicate time, place, frequency, duration, reason, manner, or to show contrast. | |||||
I ate my lunch at noon. | | She went to the store. | |||
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| I ate in the cafeteria. | | She walked into the house. | ||
*Do not use adverbs as objects of prepositions.
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I went to somewhere. | | I went somewhere. | |
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I was busy at last night. | | I was busy last night. | |
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John works in downtown. | | John works downtown. | |
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She came to home on yesterday. | | She came home yesterday |
Be careful with words such as home, downtown, today, next/last week, etc. which are sometimes used as adverbs and sometimes used as nouns. | |||||||||
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I will go back tomorrow. | | Tomorrow is another day. | |||||||
She went home last night. | | They built a home in Oregon. | |||||||
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Next week I will travel to Iowa. | | Next week is my vacation. | |||||||
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