Adverb of Place | Learn Basic English Grammar Course

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to this English course on adverbs.

In this video, we're gonna talk about adverbs of place.

Adverbs of place tell us where an action happens.

They could also give us information on direction, distance, or movement.

Let's take a look at a quick example.

‘Let's go and play outdoors.’

Now in this sentence, the adverb of place is ‘outdoors’.

It answers the question, ‘Where?’.

Where?

‘Outdoors.’

Okay.

Now let's learn a bit more about adverbs of place together.

Let's get started.

First, let's talk a bit about ‘here’ and ‘there’.

‘Here’ and ‘there’ are two adverbs of place that relates specifically to the speaker.

‘Here’ meaning close to the speaker.

Close to me.

‘There’ meaning farther away.

Okay. Let's take a look at a few examples.

‘I put my keys there.’

So the adverb ‘there’ indicating the location of the keys

and they're a bit farther away from me.

Okay?

Second example.

‘Please come here.’

‘Here’ being the adverb, you know, meaning to me.

So these adverbs are place at the end of the sentence.

But you can also put them at the beginning if you want to emphasize the location.

For example,

‘Here are your keys.’

‘Here’.

close to me.

‘There is your umbrella.’

Over there, farther away.

So in these two cases, I want to emphasize the location

so I place the adverb at the beginning of the sentence.

Okay, guys?

Let's now practice pronunciation.

Please repeat after me.

‘I put my keys there.’

‘Please come here.’

‘Here are your keys.’

‘There is your umbrella.’

Good job, guys.

Let's move on.

Let's now take a look at adverbs of movement and directions.

Some adverbs end in ‘-ward’.

Or ‘-wards’.

It's the same thing.

And they express movement in a particular direction.

For example, ‘homeward’ or ‘homewards’

‘backward’ or ‘backwards’

‘forward’ or ‘forwards’

‘onward’ or ‘onwards’

So they express a movement.

And they specify a particular direction.

Let's take a look at a few examples sentences.

‘We drove eastwards.’ or ‘eastward’.

It would be the exact same thing.

‘The children looked upwards at the stars.’

‘You need to move forward one step.’

So each time you have a movement specifying the direction of this movement.

Okay?

Good.

Let's practice pronunciation now.

Repeat after me please.

‘We drove eastwards.’

‘The children looked upwards at the stars.’

‘You need to move forward one step.’

Good, guys.

Let's move on.

Some adverbs express both movement and location at the same time.

For example, when I say, ‘The child went indoors,’

There's a movement.

The child goes into the house.

But it's also a location.

He's inside – indoors.

Another example would be,

‘He's going abroad.’

It's a movement, but it's also a location abroad in another country.

Finally I could say,

‘The rock rolled downhill.’

There's the movement going down, but it's also a location.

Now let's practice pronunciation.

Please repeat after me.

‘The child went indoors.’

‘He is going abroad.’

‘The rock rolled downhill.’

Good job, guys.

moving on.

‘everywhere’ ‘somewhere’

‘anywhere’ or ‘nowhere’

are adverbs of place as well.

But they are special because they describe a location or direction

that is indefinite or unspecific.

For example,

‘I looked everywhere for my car keys.’

‘I'd like to go somewhere for my vacation.’

‘We're going nowhere.’

‘Is there anywhere to get a coffee?’

Let's practice pronunciation together.

Repeat after me.

‘I looked everywhere for my car keys.’

‘I'd like to go somewhere for my vacation.’

‘We're going nowhere.’

‘Is there anywhere to get a coffee?’

Great guys. Let's move on.

Just so you know, some adverbs can also be prepositions.

Now the difference is that an adverb stands alone.

A preposition is always followed by a noun.

So for example, ‘outside’.

‘outside’ can be an adverb?

For example, ‘we were waiting outside.’

It's an adverb.

It stands alone.

But it can also be a preposition.

For example, ‘We were waiting outside his office.’

It goes with a noun.

Another example, ‘I kicked the ball around.’

‘around’ is an adverb, in this case it stands alone.

But it can also be a preposition.

‘I kicked the ball around the field.’

It goes with a noun.

Okay?

So an adverb stands alone. A preposition is followed by a noun.

Now let's practice pronunciation.

please repeat after me.

‘We were waiting outside.’

‘We were waiting outside his office.’

‘I kicked the ball around.’

‘I kicked the ball around the field.’

Very good, guys.

Let's now move on to practice, shall we?

Okay, guys.

Let's do a bit of extra practice.

I have a few example sentences for you to spot adverbs of place.

First example,

‘John looked around but he couldn't find his wife.’

Now remember, adverbs of place, answer the question – ‘where?’

Can you spot the adverb here?

Of course, it’s the word ‘around’.

Where did John look?

He looked ‘around’.

Second example,

‘I searched everywhere I could think of.’

Now where did I search?

‘everywhere’

‘everywhere’ is the adverb.

‘Let's go back.’

Now what's the adverb in this sentence?

It’s ‘back’ - of course.

Where?

‘back’.

Next example, ‘Come in.’

Where?

‘in’.

Okay, the adverb is ‘in’.

Okay, so adverbs of place answer the question – ‘where?’.

Okay, Let's practice pronunciation.

Please repeat the sentences after me.

‘John looked around but he couldn't find his wife.’

‘I searched everywhere I could think of.’

‘Let's go back.’

‘Come in.’

Good job, guys.

Okay, guys.

You now know a lot more about adverbs of place.

Now I know it's hard to learn about all these adverbs,

but don't worry, you'll get there.

You just need a bit of practice.

Okay?

Now I'm gonna carry on talking about adverbs in my next videos,

so make sure to watch them.

Thank you for watching and see you next time.

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