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Practicing the use of adverbs of time and frequencyThis page is a little theoretical. It contains lots of rules and grammar. We are trying to make our rules easy to memorize. That's why we put them into the blue boxes:
On the previous page, you saw four examples of how adverbs of time and frequency and also expressions of time ("at three o'clock") can be used inside a German sentence. You also tried to figure out the grammatical rules that have to be applied when using these expressions. We will now put these rules into words so that you can understand them better:
Those three rule above summarize entirely the new grammar from the example sentences on the previous page. We will now extensively practice the use of these three rules in the following exercises. Exercise Add to the beginning(!) of the following sentences the information of time given in parentheses. The information of time in the answers is highlighed in blue. Example: Ich mähe den Rasen. (selten) Selten mähe ich den Rasen.
Exercise Put in the middle of the following sentences the information of time given in parentheses. Be aware of the fact that in German: time precedes location!. Example: Martin macht sein Bett. (nie) Martin macht nie sein Bett.  The new soccer stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Exercise Now to the difficult part: Can you translate the following sentences into German? Whenever the information of time is at the beginning of the English sentence, do the same for your German translation. Example: Today, we go to the supermarket. Heute gehen wir in den Supermarkt. 1) Andreas and Gabi are taking pictures right now.
 2) In the evening, we take a walk.
3) Your dad prepares the food around noon.
4) At half past nine, my sister repairs her bike.
5) We will go to the office tomorrow. (difficult)
6) Tomorrow, we will go to the zoo. (even more difficult!)
It seems that you understood the use of the above rules very well. Nevertheless, we will further exercise the positioning of subject and verb in connection with adverbs of time at some later point in this lesson.  previous page
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